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445 By Friedman-Abeles/© Billy Rose Theatre Division, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
450 Box 3, Frederick Nicklaus Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
464 By Fuller, Tennessee Williams Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
469 United Press Photo, Tennessee Williams Literary File, Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
481 By Friedman-Abeles/© Billy Rose Theatre Division, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
486 Photofest.
493 Photofest.
498 Tennessee Williams, playwright, the Algonquin Hotel, New York, August 26, 1969. Photograph by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
510 By John Vachon, Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
524 By Christopher Makos/Makostudio.com.
531 AP/Press Association Images.
536 By Dotson Rader.
543 Pancho Rodriguez Collection.
548 © Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos.
552 By Sam Shaw © 2014 Sam Shaw Inc., licensed by Shaw Family Archives, www.shawfamilyarchives.com.
565 Photofest.
572 Tennessee Williams (Art), Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
574 By Kevin Horan/Photofest.
576 AP/Press Association Images.
581 Courtesy of Robert Kiely.
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8. By Jim Parrott, Tennessee Williams Literary File, Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
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2. Tennessee Williams Literary File, Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
3. By John Vachon, Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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6. By Friedman-Abeles/© Billy Rose Theatre Division, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
7. © Annie Leibovitz/Contact Press images.
8. By Bill Viggiano, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
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10. © Scavullo, reprinted by permission of the Francesco Scavullo Foundation, In., and Francesco Scavullo Estate.
TEXT CREDITS
Quotation from undated letter from Marlon Brando reproduced by permission of Brando Enterprises, L.P.
Excerpt from Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey © 1994 by Random House.
Brief extracts from four letters of Paul Bigelow to Jordan Massie reprinted by permission of Hank Schwartz.
Excerpt from letters of Cheryl Crawford used courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries.
Excerpt from Mitch Douglas’s letter to Tennessee Williams (July 1981) reprinted by permission of Mitch Douglas.
Reminiscences of Eddie Dowling reprinted courtesy of Columbia University Center for Oral History Collection.
Extract “Young people who pass through the kind of ascetic phase . . . any sort of external restrictions” from The Writings of Anna Freud, by permission of the Marsh Agency Ltd on behalf of the Estate of Anna Freud.
Excerpt of a poem Ruth Gordon sent to Laurette Taylor used by permission of Jerrold B. Gold, executor to the estate of Garson Kanin.
Excerpt from Masud Khan’s Hidden Selves, © 1989 by Karnac Books.
George Keathley’s unpublished reminiscence of Tennessee Williams used by permission of Stanley Klimczyk.
Excerpt from two letters written by Lawrence Kubie used by permission of Ann Kubie Rabinowitz.
Quote from A Life by Elia Kazan, © 1988 by Knopf Publishing.
All quotes from the letters, diaries, notebooks, and papers of Elia Kazan used by permission of Frances Kazan.
Excerpts from letters by James Laughlin used by permission of James Laughlin.
Letters from Tennessee Williams to David Lobdell used by permission of the estate of Tennessee Williams.
Excerpts from letters written by Anna Magnani used by permission of Luca Magnani.
Excerpts of a letter from Yukio Mishima to Robert McGregor used by permission of the heirs of Yukio Mishima.
Excerpt from John Maxtone-Graham’s stage manager’s account of the out-of-town tryout of Night of the Iguana used by permission of John Maxtone-Graham.
Excerpts of Seymour Milbert’s unpublished account of the rehearsals of the original production of Tennessee Williams’s Camino Real used by permission of Katherine Glass.
Excerpts from Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller, copyright © 1987 by Arthur Miller. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Excerpts from Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller, copyright © 1987, 1995, used by permission of the Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.
“Love and the Rind of Time” from The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers. Copyright © 1971 by Floria V. Lasky, Executrix of the Estate of Carson McCullers. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Frank Merlo’s letters and his poem “To Beg a Question” used by permission of Josephine dePetris.
Excerpt from a letter describing the arrival of Williams in New Orleans in the 1970s used by permission of Zulema Loup.
Quote from Clifford Odets’s The Time Is Ripe used by permission of Walt Odets.
Excerpt from The Long-Distance Runner by Tony Richardson, © 1993 by William Morrow & Co.
Excerpts from Tennessee: Cry of the Heart, © 1985 by Dotson Rader, used by permission of Dotson Rader.
Excerpt from “Not Waving but Drowing” by Stevie Smith, © 1957 by Stevie Smith. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
An unpublished letter by Irwin Shaw to Elia Kazan, © Irwin Shaw, reprinted by kind permission of the Estate of Irwin Shaw and the Sayle Literary Agency.
Excerpts from the letters and telegrams of Irene Selznick in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University used by permission of Robert Gottlieb.
Excerpts from “A View from inside the Storm” used by permission of Ed Sherin.
A few sentences spoken to John Lahr by Alan Schwartz about a dead monkey quoted with the permission of Alan Schwartz.
Quotes from Laurette: The Intimate Biography of Laurette Taylor, © 1984 by Marguerite Courtney, used by permission of Meg Courtney.
Excerpt from The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, © 2001 by Kenneth Tynan and John Lahr. Used by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing.
Excerpt from Palimpsest: A Memoir, © 1995 by Gore Vidal/Random House Publishing.
Excerpts from the letters of Marion Vaccaro reprinted by permission of Historic New Orleans Collection. Every effort has been made to locate an heir for Ms. Vaccaro, without success.
Excerpts from Eli Wallach’s letters to Elia Kazan used by permission of Eli Wallach.
Excerpt from “Represented by Audrey Wood” by Audrey Wood and Max Wilk used by permission of David Wilk.
Excerpts from letters of Audrey Wood to Tennessee Williams used by permission of Jerold Couture and the Dramatists Guild Fund.
Excerpt from A House Not Meant to Stand by Tennessee Williams © 2008 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, © 1947 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Camino Real by Tennessee Williams, © 1953 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, © 1954 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Cortege” from In the Winter of Cities by Tennessee Williams, copyright © 1956, 1964 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The History of a Play (with Parentheses)” by Tennessee Williams, from New Selected Essays: Where I Live, © 1944 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Various Excerpts from New Selected Essays: Where I Live by Tennessee Williams, © 1944 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Notes on the Filming of The Rose Tattoo” from New Selected Essays: Where I Live by Tennessee Williams, © 1944 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Agent as Catalyst” from New Selected Essays: Where I Live by Tennessee Williams, © 1944 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams, © 1998 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Desire And The Black Masseur” from One Arm by Tennessee Williams, © 1977, 1979 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, © 1958 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Selected Letters: Volume I, 1920–1945 by Tennessee Williams, © 2000 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Stairs to the Roof by Tennessee Williams, © 2000 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Stopped Rocking in Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays by Tennessee Williams, © 1984 by the Estate of Tennessee Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Enemy: Time” from Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams, © 2008 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Tangier: The Speechless Summer” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1937 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Valediction” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1937 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“A Separate Poem” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1937 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Iron Is the Winter” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1937 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Little Horse” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1937 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Siege” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1937 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Carrousel Tune” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1939 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Death Is High” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1939 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Faint as Leaf Shadow” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1939 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Comforter and the Betrayer” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1939 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Soft City” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1939 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Morgenlied” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1977 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“What’s New on the Agenda, Mr. Williams?” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1977 by The University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Old Men Go Mad at Night” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1977 by The University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“You and I” from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1977 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpts from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1948 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Grand” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1948 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1948 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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