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Jun 15, 2022 · In honor of Pride Month, I wanted to highlight the relationship between Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo. Williams was renowned for his contributions to the theater world. Some of his plays include famous works such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie.
Mar 14, 2024 · The cover of TWAR 2024 features a photograph of Frank Merlo and Tennessee Williams taken in 1958 when they were living together in Key West, Florida. (Photo by John Vachon for Look magazine; courtesy Library of Congress, LC-L9-58-7797-E, no. 12)
Mar 21, 2019 · When Tennessee Williams first met Frank Merlo, a handsome, athletic, working-class Italian-American from New Jersey, at a Provincetown bar in 1947, he was already the celebrated playwright of The Glass Menagerie. What began as a one-night tryst turned into a 14-year romantic partnership.
- John O’Rourke
Mar 20, 2020 · Exacerbating matters were the deaths of two of his longtime partners. Kip Kiernan, Williams' lost love, died at 26, and Frank Merlo, his lover for 14 years, lost his fight with lung cancer in 1963.
- Tom Meisfjord
Apr 6, 2022 · On this week's episode of The Great Failed Romances of the Twentieth Century, we take a trip to the theater to discuss the relationship between a genius playwright and his longtime muse.
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During the late 1940s and 1950s, Williams began to travel widely with his partner Frank Merlo (1922 – September 21, 1963), often spending summers in Europe. He moved often to stimulate his writing, living in New York, New Orleans, Key West , Rome, Barcelona , and London.
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Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963). Though separated briefly in 1961 and again in 1962, the two were partners for 15 years. Merlo acted as his personal manager/secretary.
