Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers

American literary greats, whose works were adapted into movies, Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. The classic movies, between 1950 and 1970, adapted from Tennessee Williams' writings, include Irving Rapper's 'The Glass Menagerie' (1950), with Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyman, and Kirk Douglas, Elia Kazan's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951), with Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, Daniel Mann's 'The Rose Tattoo' (1955), with Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, Elia Kazan's 'Baby Doll' (1956), adapted from the play '27 Wagons Full of Cotton', with Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, and Eli Wallach, Richard Brooks' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958), with Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Canadian actor Jack Carson, Canadian actress Madeleine Sherwood, and Australian actress Judith Anderson, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 'Suddenly, Last Summer' (1959), with Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, Sidney Lumet's 'The Fugitive Kind' (1960), adapted from the play 'Orpheus Descending, with Anna Magnani, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton, Peter Glenville's 'Summer and Smoke' (1961), with Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, Rita Moreno, and Una Merkel, José Quintero's 'The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone' (1961), adapted from the novel, with Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Olivier Martinez, Jill St. John, and Coral Browne, Richard Brooks' 'Sweet Bird of Youth' (1962), with Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Madeleine Sherwood, and Rip Torn, George Roy Hill's 'Period of Adjustment' (1962), with Jane Fonda, Anthony Franciosa, Jim Hutton, and Lois Nettleton, John Huston's 'The Night of the Iguana' (1964), with Ava Gardner, Richard Burton, Sue Lyon, Deborah Kerr, and Grayson Hall, Sydney Pollack's 'This Property is Condemned' (1964), with Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Mary Badham, and Canadian actress Kate Reid, Joseph Losey's 'Boom!' (1968), adapted from the play 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore'. with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Noēl Coward, and Sidney Lumet's 'The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots' (1970), adapted from the playwright's 'The Seven Descents of Myrtle', with Lynn Redgrave, James Coburn, and Robert Hooks. Several of Carson McCullers writings were adapted into movies, including Fred Zinnemann's 'A Member of the Wedding' (1952), with Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Dickie Moore, and Brandon De Wilde, John Huston's 'Reflection in a Golden Eye' (1968), with Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Zorro David, Brian Keith, and Robert Forster, Robert Ellis Miller's 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' (1968), with Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Cicely Tyson, Stacy Keach, Jackie Marlowe, and Percy Rodriguez, Simon Callow's 'The Ballad of the Sad Café" (1991), adapted from an Edward Albee play that was adapted from a Carson McCuller's short story, with Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger, and Karen Allen's 'A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud' (2017), with Kale Browne, William Gallatis, and Chip Rybak. Tennessee Williams was pleased with most of the movie adaptations of his works, except for Gertrude Lawrence's performance in 'A Glass Menagerie', and he was not pleased with 'This Property is Condemned', and 'Boom!' and 'The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots' were both critically panned. Carson McCullers was very pleased with the filming of 'A Member of the Wedding', but she passed away before the other movie adaptations of her writings were released.