Tennessee Williams

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1911 age 0

   Born

2. 1951 age 40

   CreditA Streetcar Named Desirescreenwriter

3. 1955 age 44

   CreditThe Rose Tattooscreenwriter

4. 1959 age 48

   CreditSuddenly, Last Summerscreenwriter

5. 1983 age 71

   Died

• ANAlex North2 titles
• MBMarlon Brando1 title
• RBRudy Bond1 title
• HWHal B. Wallis1 title
• VLVivien Leigh1 title
• MKMickey Kuhn1 title
• JHJames Wong Howe1 title
• SSSam Spiegel1 title
• GVGore Vidal1 title
• MAMalcolm Arnold1 title

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  Photo:Orlando Fernandez, World Telegram staff photographerPublic domain

• When I look back at Stairs to the Roof... I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I do not feel apologetic about this play. Unskilled and awkward as I was at this initial period of my playwriting, I certainly had a moral earnestness which I cannot boast of today, and I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times. I wish I still had the idealistic passion of Benjamin Murphy! You may smile as I do at the sometimes sophomoric aspect of his excitement, but I hope you will respect, as I do, the purity of his feeling and the honest concern which he had in his heart for the basic problem of mankind, which is to dignify our lives with a certain freedom.

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• I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.

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• Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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• The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

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• Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

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• The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

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