Suddenly, Last Summer

Katharine Hepburn is a wealthy woman who uses her checkbook in the hopes of having her niece lobotomized in "Suddenly, Last Summer," a 1959 film directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, and Mercedes McCambridge.... Full review

This screen version, by Joseph L Mankiewicz, of Tennessee Williams' play isn't as highly thought of as it should be. It's not a classic and on occasions it comes over as crude and stilted, but it also has many fine... Full review

It's hard to take your eyes off an impossibly beautiful, 27-year old Elizabeth Taylor, especially in her skintight white bathing suit, and the fact that she gives a powerhouse performance, likely her best prior to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?",... Full review

While the symbolism here is about as heavy as a sledgehammer, it's offered in such artfully poetic style that only writers of the caliber of Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal could give us. What they have done is provide KATHARINE... Full review

"Suddenly, Last Summer" brought Elizabeth Taylor her third Oscar nomination, and she probably should have won (though winner Simone Signoret's performance in "Room at the Top" was also outstanding). Taylor is awesome in this film ----- most notably in the... Full review

"Suddenly, Last Summer" - is one of the scariest films I've seen. Directed in 1959 by Joseph Mankievitz and based on one of Tennessee Williams' plays, it deals with very disturbing topics. Elizabeth Taylor is sensational, playing Catherine, the girl who... Full review

"Suddenly, Last Summer" was perhaps Tennessee Williams most autobiographical play. Mr. Williams never forgave his mother for letting his sister Rose undergo a lobotomy to "cure" her anxiety problems, something that he dealt with in this work, as well. As... Full review

In 1930's New Orleans, a wealthy and eccentric older woman named Mrs. Venable (Katharine Hepburn), wants a surgeon (Montgomery Clift) to perform a lobotomy on her niece (Elizabeth Taylor), for reasons that become clear toward the end of the film.... Full review

Being an admirer of both Monty Clift and Tennessee Williams, I went to see this film with great anticipation. I was eighteen at the time and topics such as homosexuality were taboo in the cinema back then. But with the... Full review

Film versions of Tennessee Williams great plays can be a little frustrating, especially for those of us lucky enough to have seen a fine production of the play on stage. I saw a fine production of this piece in London... Full review

The opening scene between Clift and Hepburn and the final scene in Sebastian's garden are the only truly great scenes in the movie. The problems with the movie are its lack of plot and its staginess. ... Full Review

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The Motels, "Suddenly Last Summer" (from Little Robbers ) Summers in Tennessee Williams plays generally aren't very relaxing. In Martha Davis' interpretation of the titular one-act play about murder and homosexual pimping, the narrator is trapped in her lurid memories... ... Full Article

Starring in the production is Blythe Danner as Mrs. Venable, Carla Gugino as the young cousin, Becky Ann Baker as Mrs. Holly, Gale Harold as Doctor Cukrowicz, Sandra Shipley as Sister Felicity, Karen Walsh as Miss Foxhill, and Wayne Wilcox... ... Full Article

New York : The Roundabout Theater's production of Tennesse Williams' Suddenly Last Summer plays its final performance today at Off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theater. Starring in the production is Blythe Danner as Mrs. ... Full Article

No one does clenched-jaw WASPiness better than Blythe Danner (pictured, with Gale Harold). Unfortunately, her aptitude doesn't extend to the aging belle at the cryptic center of Tennessee Williams' New Orleans-set one-act. ... Full Article

New York : The Roundabout production of Tennesse Williams' Suddenly Last Summer opens today at Off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theater. Starring in the production is Blythe Danner as Mrs. ... Full Article