Nel giorno dell'anniversario della sua scomparsa, vorrei dedicare qualche parola al drammaturgo americano Tennessee Williams (Columbus 26 marzo 1911 - New York 25 febbraio 1983), autore di alcune opere teatrali di grandissimo successo che, spesso, furono trasferite sul grande schermo e divennero altrettanti (se non più clamorosi) successi cinematografici; basti ricordare film come Lo Glass Menagerie (1950) by Irving Rapper, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) by Elia Kazan, The Rose Tattoo (1955) by Daniel Mann, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and The Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) by Richard Brooks, Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, The Fugitive (1959) by Sidney Lumet, The Night of the Iguana (1964) by John Huston. Many of these films have made use of a cast important (I have worked as actors Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Richard Burton, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Anna Magnani, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, etc..) And some have also been influential awards. The success of the plays of Williams is due to the extreme realism and psychological research very careful with which the author described a certain kind of American society corroded by vice, moral and physical degradation and violence in interpersonal relationships underground. I close with a scene from the film "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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