When Richard Brooks and James Poe turned the stage play Cat on a hot tin roofinto a film script, they focused mainly on the plot and fashioned his adaptation of Tennessee Williams' work after Hollywood romances that were popular in the 1950s. ... Drama in the stage Cat is created via dialogue. ... The close up of theater is the character's word. ... Her character is fit in the 1950s societal image of women. ... Hence, the characters' motives are more difficult to understand. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example, Williams preferred a soft light in his frightened disillusioned characters because they "so often want to withdraw from the blinding light of reality into the softer world of illusion" (Stein 20). ... Following the success of Streetcar, Williams and Mielziner continued their partnership and worked together on six more productions: Summer and Smoke, Cat on the Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and The Kingdom of Earth. ... Then, the tension reached a boiling point when, during the production of Cat on a...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is all but coincidental that Tennessee Williams uses this to say when furthering Blanches character. ... There, he meet a fellow coworker, Stanley Kowalshi, who would later become a main character in the drama, A Streetcar named Desire. ... Cat on the hot tin roof, because a major motion picture and received the Pulitzer Prize of 1955. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School