Streetcar Lecture Series Sunday Afternoon July 14th TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY: HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS Author John DiLeo revisits the Tennessee Williams films but with a twist, focusing on eleven actors who appear in more than one of the Williams movies, an unofficial stock company of repeat players. In a companion program to his book, Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors, DiLeo examines these eleven actors and their Williams roles, including Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Anna Magnani, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Joanne Woodward, Geraldine Page, Richard Burton, Mildred Dunnock, and Madeleine Sherwood. After playing one Williams role on-screen, how could these performers resist coming back for another? The results, from the brilliant to the disastrous, include some of the most memorable screen performances of the twentieth century. Monday Evening July 15th “STREETCAR”…IS THAT YOU?: THE ON-SCREEN IMITATORS OF WILLIAMS’ MASTERWORK Author John DiLeo continues his look at the films of Tennessee Williams by exploring movies that borrowed (sometimes shamelessly) from A Streetcar Named Desire, films both famous (Look Back in Anger) and obscure (Storm Warning). Among the refashioned stand-ins for Blanche, Stanley, and Stella, you’ll find Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Margaret Leighton. Plus a bonus of Williams-related surprises from Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Sleeper, and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her. John DiLeo is the author of five books about classic movies: And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies!: 200 Quizzes for Golden Age Movie Lovers (1999); 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember But Probably Don’t (2002); Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery (2007); Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (2010); Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies (2012). John has presented his Tennessee Williams programs at the Williams festivals in Provincetown and New Orleans. You can follow him at his blog (screensaversmovies), website (johndileo), and on Twitter (@JOHNDiLEO). Book signing will follow the lectures.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:12:19 +0000
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