I started seeing this movie in a high school English class, in 1997... and when the bell rang, I never got to see the last 15 minutes of the film. For years, I've told myself that I was going to watch it and everytime I'd end up watching something else 🤷♀️ Well, today, 22 years later, I've ended that frustration. lol
We began studying this at our drama class. I completed reading the play, and my teacher clarified some concepts used in it. To tell you the truth, I could not hold my tears throughout this admirable movie... What a masterpiece...
I wonder what ever happened to poor Shy Unmarried and Crippled Laura, did she end up opening an OnlyFans account to pay her and her Mother's bills 😭😭😭😭
Superb actor John Malkovitch and Joanne Woodward's gestures, very apt in the theatrical southern mannerisms. I am going to watch the other versions of the glass menagerie and compare depth and performance. Thanks for sharing.
Being a student of literature, I guess that this is the best play that I have ever read. It's so artistic and aesthetic! And it appears to be even more beautiful when you yourself are like Laura, shy, introverted, socially awkward. Tennessee Williams has really created a masterpiece!
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@@Skitzo1629 a literary text is never boring. It's just our taste buds are different and that's alright. You probably like more action and less description and therefore don't like it, but that does not make the text boring.
@I hope Did you know that Tennesee Williams had sister that had one leg smaller than the other. And she was shy, introverted, socialy awkward. Tennesee himself was gay, so yeah... The Glass Menagerie is his own, very personal, very deep thruth about his own life. Thinking about that and connecting it with this piece of art just makes me sad and smile ...
@@vedadcano2048 yes, Rose Isabel Williams. When we were analysing the text, we came to know that Laura is actually a mixture of Tennessee and Rose, both the brother and sister were like that though Rose's personality traits are more prominent in Laura. This melancholic yet beautiful details show how artistic was Tennessee Williams in his personal life! Yes, this saddens me too.
+Mein Gott Yes but the other one follows the play exactly. Katherine Hepburn one. I get lost in the words, and the deep hidden meanings. The sad tragic lives of each family member.
Allerdyne It brings out the reality of so many people being frozen and watching time slip through their fingers but not doing anything about it as with Laura. Existential.
This was my favorite version of the Glass Managerie. During that "chew your food dear, chew, chew, chew" scene, I wanted to yell "shut the fuck up!!!" If it elicits such strong reactions, you know it's working. The mother has to be as annoying as possible.
Thank you soooo much for posting this! This is the definitive production in my opinion. Joanne Woodward, Malkovich and Allen are the most superb Wingfields filmed. I have always felt Woodward was the finest Amanda I have seen...and have seen a lot on stage and filmed. Thank you. This is the best version made.
John Malkovich is one of the most versatile and sensitive male actors to happen in Screenplay this century. He is enormously suited for a wide variety of characters, but never shows any sign of Egotism. And Joanne Woodward only needs to be silent to get her point across. Her quiet, steady gaze says all that is necessary!!
My god. Hope i don't become this kind of mother, so castrating, so axphiciating...and unable to shut up for a minute. OmG, I've been such a Laura so many times. My mom still treats me like a Laura. Only diffetence is that noe I dont care, but used to hurt me so much. I was/am never enough for her.
I always felt the chemistry between the actors who play tom and laura was a bit on the romantic side. Look at that scene where Tom comes home drunk and gives Laura the magician's scarf.
+MrChris8413 I will look at this again with your point in mind. I love being able to discuss a play and get other people's viewpoints. It makes it so much more enjoyable.
+MrChris8413 Yes, I know Tom and Laura are very close in the play. Hell, the only reason Tom even stays as long as he does in that "coffin"-like situation is because he doesn't want to abandon his sister. You're right. But I think John Malkovich and Karen Allen's chemistry on-screen is borderline romantic seeming. It's all in the way they gaze at each other. That's just me, though. Haha.
lol Wow, you really went deep with that comment. I've taught this play (and A Streetcar Named Desire) for 10 years on the high school level and my students are always fascinated to see the autobiographical aspect of Williams' writing. I think knowing his backstory really adds something to one's appreciation of the text overall. Having said that, your comment, I think, is better suited with the general comments rather than as a reply to my observation on the scarf scene. Haha! But I do see the PS comment you threw in ;)
*This is my favorite film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's first play. In true American fashion, he had it produced after cutting a couple of years off his age, so that he submit it in a competition for "Playwrights Under Thirty Years of Age"!*
I distinctly remember first seeing this film back in high school. I had never given much attention to stage plays. Other than more fanciful things like Phantom of the Opera I was never interested in humanistic things like this. I was (and still am) a fan of fantasy and science fiction. Realistic things were boring, I thought. But then one year in a literature class we studied this play at one point and chose people from the class to read the parts and put on the play so to speak, though from our desks. I happened to have the part of Tom. Playing the part as best as I could really made it real for me, made me feel completely engaged in the character and his motivations, and I loved the play by the end. After we put it all together and tested on the material we watched this rendition of the film and to see the lines I had read aloud being brought to life so masterfully by Malkovich changed my perspective on a lot of things having to do with more realistic drama. From that moment on I was a huge John Malkovich fan and started to seek out other similar plays, films, and novels. I owe a lot to this film as it turns out and I honestly don't think I'd be the same person I am today if this hadn't steered my interests the way it did.
John Malkovich is my favorite actor of all time, followed by the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Thanks for uploading this fabulous version. I couldn't find it anywhere!
He's from the same area as me, in Southern Illinois. I used to manage his mother's newspaper office after she passed, and was pretty good friends with his cousin. Many of the Malkovich's still live right around tiny, little Benton, Illinois
Speaking of chemistry between Laura and Tom, I also sensed something between Amanda and Jim. I mean, Amanda doesn’t behave like the mother, she behaves like the Southern Belle, almost as if SHE’s entertaining Jim rather than Laura trying to attract him or he wooing Laura. I think Amanda is stuck in her past as the Southern Belle and she misses it so much, that’s why she’s so desperate for gentlemen callers; she’s desperate to entertain. And when Jim comes over, notice how the camera goes behind the drawn portieres, framing the two- Jim and Amanda- in a light haze. It’s not even romantic, it’s reminiscent of the old Amanda, the one that she lost when she married the father. Jim’s back can be seen so he’s just merged into some young man. But the audience is aware of his identity and it makes this scene very disconcerting and just...sad. I wince at the awkwardness but I also sigh with sympathy for her.
I have watched all three screen versions of Glass Menagerie and in my opinion Joanne Woodward is the best Amanda Wingfield of the three. Laurette Taylor's performance was ruined by the play being re-written and bad directing. Katherine Hepburn was good but I never could shake the fact that I was watching Katherine Hepburn. Joanne Woodward inhabits this part and makes you believe she is a real person. I wish she had gotten more accolades for this performance. And oh yes, I also think everyone else is wonderful as well, particularly John Malkovich.
+Allison Seamark FYI, that wasn't Laurette Taylor in the first movie version, it was Gertrude Lawrence. Taylor originated the role on Broadway in a legendary performance people say was the greatest they ever saw; I'd be over the moon if she'd lived to do it on film.
Same here! No matter how old he gets, John's voice retains its youth. Even today, if you hear him speak, his voice still sounds like a 22 year old man's voice. His ennounciations are good and it doesn't sound like an older mans voice, as some mens' voices get more gruff as they age.
Honey Exactly!! His voice is incredibly soothing. I could listening to his monologue all day. Especially his one as Biff in Death Of A Salesman. Finally, someone who actually gets it!
yeah obviously there not going for the wr any% glitchless no tas fc run, they're acting out a play and taking the time to let the shots and lines develop.
I have a real life "Laura" in my family. She's been hiding in my cousin's house since hs graduation three years ago. Not certain what her future holds.
This is a wonderful version....halfway between a stage production and a movie. It allows the camera to get intimate with the actors without mutilating it like the "official" movie version with Douglas and Wyman. Karen Allen is lovely, so adorable and fragile you just want to squeeze her but are terrified you'd crush her like the petals on a...well, a blue rose, I suppose. For those who might be interested Malkovich did a wonderful "Of Mice and Men" with Gary Sinise which is much like this...a movie that is more a stage play than a movie.
They all play the mother well .Joanne and Shirley were better than Kathrine but all were good .You can definitely see why the kids are all askew,the mother is an overbearing nightmare full of intimidation and her own fears and insecurities as she just passes it along down the line .There ends the lineage .
Wow!!!! Such mind-blowing performances!!! Currently reading the play and then I saw this adaptation directed by Paul Newman, it's really, really excellent work! How he has brilliantly guided the actors and for the actors themselves to deliver the lines that couldn't be so easily imagined just by reading....watching this every night after chores, enjoying a lot:) Thanks for uploading!
The first time I saw Karen Allen was in the film Starman with Jeff Bridges; she played a vulnerable young widow from Upper Michigan (where I lived for five years though I'm from below the Mackinac Bridge in the lower peninsula). In that movie, she was just the right blend of fragility and spunk that the role of abandoned wife required. Here, a few years later, she is still fragile but minus the feisty: with her smattering of freckles, big lost eyes, and that husky voice that barely rises above a whisper, she does the role of Laura Wingfield proud.
She reminds me of my mum - not the "how to eat your food" bit - she wasn't obsessed - but hypercritical self-centred authoritarian, full of fantasy, deluded about herself and her kids, banging on and on about herself, about how pretty she was, how much men fancied her and how much everybody loved her; about all the men she could've had but she ended up with our dad; how she martyred herself to ungrateful selfish kids; how she kept telling the same stories - and I mean stories because most were lies or exaggerations - over and over again ad infinitum ad nauseum.
If this souvenir of your mother was not so tragic it would be beautiful. I suppose all life is beautiful in its retelling, just like the Glass Menagerie. So beautiful you cry not only for the characters but for yourself as well. Thank you for sharing.
I think that Tennessee William's has a brilliant insight into the human condition. He especially really understands women and how what it is that keeps women down and the expectations laid upon us. The state of our 1st world attitude about what we are supposed to do and for some people life is just hard yet no one sees.it.
Remember seeing an earlier version when I was quite young ( I am 55 now), an it stuck with me apparently. Listened today to an interview on NPR about the author today and decided to revisit. Very glad I did, thank you much for sharing. Williams was a master, though his 'provoke thought without providing resolution' style would never work/sell today. He made it feel as if it were about all of the characters, when in truth - it was Tom's story alone. Bravo aliel715.
You got a beautiful profile Tammie 🥰 there isn’t a Word In the dictionary that can explain your type of beauty. i hope your day is as beautiful as you?
Nonsense ,her Amanda is an older version of her role in Sound of the Fury as Yul Byrner's step niece.Katherine was the much better Amanda Wingfield ,yes Katherine often sounded the same however she was a phenomenal actress the acting is in her face especially the eyes ,only exceptionally gifted actors can act through their eyes.The late Peter o'toole had this gift.
His character in all his movies is awful, I hate him but he's a very good actor !! How could anyone speak to his / her mother the way he does; shameful !
Done in 1987, directed by Paul Newman. No one is going to do a better job at those roles than John Malkovich and Joanne Woodward. Karen Allen beautiful and delicate. No surprise all three have had remarkable film careers. James Naughton as the Gentleman caller rather lets the side down and spent a lifetime on TV. Overall, remarkably good.
I could watch John Malkovitch in anything! What an amazing actor! I've seen him play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in "Mary Reilly', Lenny, in "Of Mice and Men", Blackbeard in a TV mini-series, A Muskateer in "Man in the Iron Mask", and play them all equally well. I swear the man is a shape-shifter!
I have seen this play twice on stage and watched all versions on film. I have this on VHS, but it's impossible to watch now. Thanks for the upload. The acting is superb.
was thinking the exact same thing. i just double checked imdb and lo and behold, it IS the same person! :D also i think the actor that plays tom is the same one that plays biff in death of a salesman.
1:46:27 When Iread this moment in the play I could hardly imagine how would one say this line without sounding ridiculous, and while i hugely enjoyed James Naughton's (amazing!) portrayal of Jim, I still laughed when I saw this :)
8:17 I appreciate that they changed "n****r" to "coloured boy" in their script, it's more sensitive. Tennessee wrote this in the mid forties so that explains why the script had that word.
I can't suffer John Malkovich in this production. He "overacts" and is far too self-important. Sam Waterston rocks in the version with Katherine Hepburn. And Katherine Hepburn is my favourite Amanda.
51:20 That sort of bracket construction holding up a fire stair is out lawed in building code of most countries. It is an inferior construction. . A better showing of fire escape construction is outback of Holly GoLightly's apartment, where she sings Moony River ! o0o
55:55 There is a fault in the play in that the old Mother would have gone to much more effort, years sooner, to secure for her daughter a man. . There must be some reason why she has not managed to find someone for the daughter, up until now.
This movie (originally a play) is based on the early life of the playwright Tennessee Williams. He is Tom and this is how he viewed his life before going off to fight in the war and later becoming a writer .
OoYes. there absolutely is a reason. She's exhausted holding the house together. The three of them are colluding in a series of games to pretend that the life they are living is going somewhere, and avoiding facing the big questions. The secretarial course that Laura drops out of is the alternative resorted to when getting her to go courting failed. She doesn't find out that laura has bottled it until the beginning of scene two (? three?) She's made those efforts before and they've failed and she's trying to find another way.
OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic." - Williams, Tennessee. "The Glass Menagerie, Scene 1." The Glass Menagerie, Scene 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2015. .
THIS WAS A VERY INTRESTING PLAY, THE GLASS MANASHERI I PLAYED THIS CHARITOR LAURA, IN DRAMA CLASS YEARS AGO, OF THE GLASS MANASHERI, I WAS TOLD I WAS NOT VERY GOOD AT ACTING, IT WAS FUN, I REALLY LIKE DOING THIS IT WOULD OF BEEN A BLESS ING TO DO THIS FOR A LIVING, BUT, WAS TOLD IN DRAMA CLASS I WASN'T GOOD, IN DRAMA AN I NEEDED MUCH MORE TRAINING, BUT THEY THOUGHT I WAS GREAT AT DOING MONOLOGES AND COMMERCIALS IM NOT GOOD AT COLD READINGS BUY I RALLY LOVE WIN I WAS IN DRAMA CLASS I LOVED IT CAUSE I GET TO PLAY OTHER PEOPLES, BUT I DIDN'T UNDER STAND HOW TO GET IN TO A CHARITOR, OR A ROLL I WOULD OF LOVE TOO BE A ACTRESS I WOULD LOVE TOO DO THIS FOR A LIVING BUT I HAVE PROBLEMS READING LINES AND UNDER STANDING THINGS, IF I COULD BE A ACTRESS IF I COULD, I WOULD LOVE TO PLAY A LAWYER, A MOTHER, A SINGER, A POLOTITION ETC ETC ETC, SOME THING VERY DIFFERNT THIN ME, AND SCENCE THEY THOUGHT I WAS MUCH BETTER AT MONOLOGES THIN I WOULD NARROATOR FOR EACH PROJECTS I DO. I WOULD LOVE TOO DO IT ALL MODEL BEAUTY PAGEANTS AND BE A ACTRESS, SING DANCE, I WISH I COULD DO IT ALL. CAUSE MY CHILD HOOD DREAM WAS TOO BE IN SHOW BIZ, SO TOO START AT ONE THING, AND GO TOO ANOTHER AND ANOTHER IS WHERE ITS AT. MAYBE ONE DAY I'LL STILL GET TO DO ALL OF THESE THINGS, MAKE MY MOTHER PROUD OF HER DAUGHTER, AMEN AMEN
I have seen many versions of this. Yes I get the mind aspect of it, and mental health points. However I dont understand the guilt. It was not his job to take care of his mom and sister. That kind of guilt should never be put on anyone and why should he be haunted. IT was not his problem for his mom and sister. It was not his fault what happened.
Ha! Yankees! Your comment is very funny, seeing as Joanne Woodward is from Thomasville, Georgia. And I don't get the part about permanent rebuke to nepotism...I'm pretty sure most people here don't either. I guess I would not like to hear your opinion of Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire, seeing as she was British and not American let alone from the South. Well you're entitled to your opinion, cheers.
The Glass Menagerie (1987 film) Directed by PAUL NEWMAN Written by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Based on The Glass Menagerie by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Produced by BURT HARRIS Cinematography MICHAEL BALLHAUS Edited by DAVID RAY Music by HENRY MANCINI Production companies Cineplex Odeon Films; Aspetuck Productions Distributed by Cineplex Odeon Films Release date October 23, 1987 Running time 134 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $3.3 million[1] Box office $895,904[2] Cast JOANNE WOODWARD as Amanda Wingfield JOHN MALKOVICH as Tom Wingfield KAREN ALLEN as Laura Wingfield JAMES NAUGHTON as Jim O'Connor Plot Introduced by TOM WINGFIELD as a memory play, it is based on his recollection of his disillusioned and delusional mother AMANDA and her shy, crippled daughter LAURA. AMANDA'S husband abandoned the family long ago, and her memory of her days as a genteel Southern belle surrounded by devoted beaux may be more romanticized than real. TOM is an aspiring writer who works in a warehouse to support his family, and the banality and boredom of everyday life lead him to spend most of his spare time watching movies in local cinemas at all hours of the night. AMANDA is obsessed with finding a proper "gentleman caller" for LAURA, who spends most of her time with her collection of glass animal figurines. To appease his mother, TOM eventually brings JIM O'CONNOR home for dinner, but complications arise when LAURA realizes he is the man she loved in high school and has thought of ever since. He dashes her hopes of a future together when he announces he is engaged. Infuriated, AMANDA lashes out at her son for raising his sister's hopes and TOM leaves, never to return to his family. The Glass Menagerie is a 1987 American drama film directed by PAUL NEWMAN. It is a replication of a production of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' 1944 play of the same title The film is the fourth adaptation of the Williams play, following a 1950 feature film and television movies made in 1966 and 1973. It was shown at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival[4] and the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in New York City on October 23, 1987. It is also the last film directed by Newman before his death in 2008. (SOURCE= Wikipedia) The Glass Menagerie (1944 Play) Play by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. Wikipedia Written by Tennessee Williams Characters Amanda Wingfield, Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Jim O'Connor, Mr. Wingfield Date premiered 1944 (SOURCE=Wikipedia) The Glass Menagerie (1950) - IMDb The Glass Menagerie: Directed by IRVING RAPPER. With JANE WYMAN, KIRK DOUGLAS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE ARTHUR KENNEDY. Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura. (SOURCE=IMDb)
My personality is exact Same as lara,and I have an inferiority complex, also i am afraid of public speaking. But I am working on this. Hope I will overcome it soon.
It's a marvel how good Joanne Woodward is. In performance after performance her work is lit from within and seems effortlessly truthful. It's beautiful and it breaks my heart.
Who’s here because they’re reading this for Literature
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You still NEED to read it, Bucko. It won’t work just by watching the movie.
Me too and there’s this great Channel called “course hero” which makes the play way easier to understand and remember✨ 🧚♀️ 💞
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@@luyandochuula9552 thank you for the great tip
I started seeing this movie in a high school English class, in 1997... and when the bell rang, I never got to see the last 15 minutes of the film. For years, I've told myself that I was going to watch it and everytime I'd end up watching something else 🤷♀️ Well, today, 22 years later, I've ended that frustration. lol
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hahah class
"I wish you were my sister" friendzoned oof
Sisterzoned*
Then kissed her 'what are you doing stepbro'
We began studying this at our drama class. I completed reading the play, and my teacher clarified some concepts used in it. To tell you the truth, I could not hold my tears throughout this admirable movie... What a masterpiece...
me too I am studying it at Drama course
Yahya Dridi I m studying this currently 💕 Wonderful play!
studying this right now!
Studying this right now. This is my second year in university
I wonder what ever happened to poor Shy Unmarried and Crippled Laura, did she end up opening an OnlyFans account to pay her and her Mother's bills 😭😭😭😭
Superb actor John Malkovitch and Joanne Woodward's gestures, very apt in the theatrical southern mannerisms. I am going to watch the other versions of the glass menagerie and compare depth and performance. Thanks for sharing.
Being a student of literature, I guess that this is the best play that I have ever read. It's so artistic and aesthetic! And it appears to be even more beautiful when you yourself are like Laura, shy, introverted, socially awkward. Tennessee Williams has really created a masterpiece!
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its so damn boring
@@Skitzo1629 a literary text is never boring. It's just our taste buds are different and that's alright. You probably like more action and less description and therefore don't like it, but that does not make the text boring.
@I hope Did you know that Tennesee Williams had sister that had one leg smaller than the other. And she was shy, introverted, socialy awkward. Tennesee himself was gay, so yeah... The Glass Menagerie is his own, very personal, very deep thruth about his own life. Thinking about that and connecting it with this piece of art just makes me sad and smile ...
@@vedadcano2048 yes, Rose Isabel Williams. When we were analysing the text, we came to know that Laura is actually a mixture of Tennessee and Rose, both the brother and sister were like that though Rose's personality traits are more prominent in Laura. This melancholic yet beautiful details show how artistic was Tennessee Williams in his personal life! Yes, this saddens me too.
“I’ll rise but I won’t shine” I love young Malkovich’s portrayal of Tom’s humour.
What a wonderful cast. A classic❤❤❤
This is the best one! Malkovitch and Joanne Woodward=excellent.
+Mein Gott Yes but the other one follows the play exactly. Katherine Hepburn one. I get lost in the words, and the deep hidden meanings. The sad tragic lives of each family member.
This certainly isn't the saddest play or movie out there, but for some reason, it always just brings a tear to my eye.
Allerdyne It brings out the reality of so many people being frozen and watching time slip through their fingers but not doing anything about it as with Laura. Existential.
Blow out your candle, that fucks me up every single time.
This was my favorite version of the Glass Managerie. During that "chew your food dear, chew, chew, chew" scene, I wanted to yell "shut the fuck up!!!" If it elicits such strong reactions, you know it's working. The mother has to be as annoying as possible.
who else is laughing every time they say "rise and shine" bc of kylie
Daisy Sanchez Me! Dude that shii was so funny!
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Thank you soooo much for posting this! This is the definitive production in my opinion. Joanne Woodward, Malkovich and Allen are the most superb Wingfields filmed. I have always felt Woodward was the finest Amanda I have seen...and have seen a lot on stage and filmed. Thank you. This is the best version made.
John Malkovich is one of the most versatile and sensitive male actors to happen in Screenplay this century. He is enormously suited for a wide variety of characters, but never shows any sign of Egotism. And Joanne Woodward only needs to be silent to get her point across. Her quiet, steady gaze says all that is necessary!!
My god. Hope i don't become this kind of mother, so castrating, so axphiciating...and unable to shut up for a minute. OmG, I've been such a Laura so many times. My mom still treats me like a Laura. Only diffetence is that noe I dont care, but used to hurt me so much. I was/am never enough for her.
I always felt the chemistry between the actors who play tom and laura was a bit on the romantic side. Look at that scene where Tom comes home drunk and gives Laura the magician's scarf.
Honestly, that kind of grossed me out. I felt that too but I wasn't able to identify exactly what made me uneasy.
+MrChris8413 I will look at this again with your point in mind. I love being able to discuss a play and get other people's viewpoints. It makes it so much more enjoyable.
+MrChris8413 Yes, I know Tom and Laura are very close in the play. Hell, the only reason Tom even stays as long as he does in that "coffin"-like situation is because he doesn't want to abandon his sister. You're right. But I think John Malkovich and Karen Allen's chemistry on-screen is borderline romantic seeming. It's all in the way they gaze at each other. That's just me, though. Haha.
Tsuki570 I think that is what I am picking up on too.
lol Wow, you really went deep with that comment. I've taught this play (and A Streetcar Named Desire) for 10 years on the high school level and my students are always fascinated to see the autobiographical aspect of Williams' writing. I think knowing his backstory really adds something to one's appreciation of the text overall. Having said that, your comment, I think, is better suited with the general comments rather than as a reply to my observation on the scarf scene. Haha! But I do see the PS comment you threw in ;)
Karen Allen is beautiful and fantastic as always
The relationship between brother and sister was so sweet, I wonder what happened to Laura after he left, we never knew…
and will never know
*This is my favorite film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's first play. In true American fashion, he had it produced after cutting a couple of years off his age, so that he submit it in a competition for "Playwrights Under Thirty Years of Age"!*
I distinctly remember first seeing this film back in high school. I had never given much attention to stage plays. Other than more fanciful things like Phantom of the Opera I was never interested in humanistic things like this. I was (and still am) a fan of fantasy and science fiction. Realistic things were boring, I thought. But then one year in a literature class we studied this play at one point and chose people from the class to read the parts and put on the play so to speak, though from our desks. I happened to have the part of Tom. Playing the part as best as I could really made it real for me, made me feel completely engaged in the character and his motivations, and I loved the play by the end. After we put it all together and tested on the material we watched this rendition of the film and to see the lines I had read aloud being brought to life so masterfully by Malkovich changed my perspective on a lot of things having to do with more realistic drama. From that moment on I was a huge John Malkovich fan and started to seek out other similar plays, films, and novels. I owe a lot to this film as it turns out and I honestly don't think I'd be the same person I am today if this hadn't steered my interests the way it did.
Every teacher dreams of having a student like you who is changed forever by a piece of memorable literature.
Well stated.
Sometimes we have to grow up a little to go back and take another look at something we dismissed as a youth.
Tennessee = Haunting brilliance.🦋
I wish I could find my English teacher from college and thank him for making us read this play...
This is my favourite Tennessee Williams play and john malkovich gives a stunning performance. The mother's acting is also brilliant
John Malkovich is my favorite actor of all time, followed by the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Thanks for uploading this fabulous version. I couldn't find it anywhere!
Absolutely agree!
Exactly! At one point I wondered if I would have to order the video tape and then send to a software lab to produce the digital file for me
He's from the same area as me, in Southern Illinois.
I used to manage his mother's newspaper office after she passed, and was pretty good friends with his cousin. Many of the Malkovich's still live right around tiny, little Benton, Illinois
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Cool I live in Chicago
I absolutely did not recognise John Malkovich at first! I’ve never seen him so young! Great performance - great play.
Hey! The actress who plays Laura was also Bill Murray's love interest in the movie Scrooged. She was really good in that. :)
She was also in Raiders of The Lost Ark.
And Crystal Skulls.
Speaking of chemistry between Laura and Tom, I also sensed something between Amanda and Jim. I mean, Amanda doesn’t behave like the mother, she behaves like the Southern Belle, almost as if SHE’s entertaining Jim rather than Laura trying to attract him or he wooing Laura. I think Amanda is stuck in her past as the Southern Belle and she misses it so much, that’s why she’s so desperate for gentlemen callers; she’s desperate to entertain. And when Jim comes over, notice how the camera goes behind the drawn portieres, framing the two- Jim and Amanda- in a light haze. It’s not even romantic, it’s reminiscent of the old Amanda, the one that she lost when she married the father. Jim’s back can be seen so he’s just merged into some young man. But the audience is aware of his identity and it makes this scene very disconcerting and just...sad. I wince at the awkwardness but I also sigh with sympathy for her.
I have watched all three screen versions of Glass Menagerie and in my opinion Joanne Woodward is the best Amanda Wingfield of the three. Laurette Taylor's performance was ruined by the play being re-written and bad directing. Katherine Hepburn was good but I never could shake the fact that I was watching Katherine Hepburn. Joanne Woodward inhabits this part and makes you believe she is a real person. I wish she had gotten more accolades for this performance. And oh yes, I also think everyone else is wonderful as well, particularly John Malkovich.
can u help me plz i need the summray
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+Allison Seamark FYI, that wasn't Laurette Taylor in the first movie version, it was Gertrude Lawrence. Taylor originated the role on Broadway in a legendary performance people say was the greatest they ever saw; I'd be over the moon if she'd lived to do it on film.
+Allison Seamark I agree so much with you
Taylor didn’t play her in the first version.
Every actor in this production is impeccable. A stunning play and movie. Gorgeous.
I absolutely LOVE his voice!
Same here! No matter how old he gets, John's voice retains its youth. Even today, if you hear him speak, his voice still sounds like a 22 year old man's voice. His ennounciations are good and it doesn't sound like an older mans voice, as some mens' voices get more gruff as they age.
Honey Exactly!! His voice is incredibly soothing. I could listening to his monologue all day. Especially his one as Biff in Death Of A Salesman. Finally, someone who actually gets it!
2 hours? It didn't even take me that long to read the play!
Michael T. Brown well yeah, acting a play out takes longer than reading it
yeah obviously there not going for the wr any% glitchless no tas fc run, they're acting out a play and taking the time to let the shots and lines develop.
Mother is not acquainted with my plans....
This play makes you always raise this question, what will happen to Amanda and Laura after Tom left them? What do you think?
I saw this movie in 1980s. Great movie. So sad story.
I have a real life "Laura" in my family. She's been hiding in my cousin's house since hs graduation three years ago. Not certain what her future holds.
This is a wonderful version....halfway between a stage production and a movie. It allows the camera to get intimate with the actors without mutilating it like the "official" movie version with Douglas and Wyman. Karen Allen is lovely, so adorable and fragile you just want to squeeze her but are terrified you'd crush her like the petals on a...well, a blue rose, I suppose. For those who might be interested Malkovich did a wonderful "Of Mice and Men" with Gary Sinise which is much like this...a movie that is more a stage play than a movie.
Man Laura really avoids eye contact as much as possible.
Fantastic piece of literature
Ryan F I totally agree with this. Hands down one of the best plays I've seen of my life.
They all play the mother well .Joanne and Shirley were better than Kathrine but all were good .You can definitely see why the kids are all askew,the mother is an overbearing nightmare full of intimidation and her own fears and insecurities as she just passes it along down the line .There ends the lineage .
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AS/A Level students where you at?
omg if i had a mama like that,.i'd run away from home too..
Thanks for sharing.
Wow!!!! Such mind-blowing performances!!! Currently reading the play and then I saw this adaptation directed by Paul Newman, it's really, really excellent work! How he has brilliantly guided the actors and for the actors themselves to deliver the lines that couldn't be so easily imagined just by reading....watching this every night after chores, enjoying a lot:) Thanks for uploading!
I’m reading this with my class it’s sad but I felt chemistry between Tom and Laura my friend says that they looked like they were dating 😂
The first time I saw Karen Allen was in the film Starman with Jeff Bridges; she played a vulnerable young widow from Upper Michigan (where I lived for five years though I'm from below the Mackinac Bridge in the lower peninsula). In that movie, she was just the right blend of fragility and spunk that the role of abandoned wife required. Here, a few years later, she is still fragile but minus the feisty: with her smattering of freckles, big lost eyes, and that husky voice that barely rises above a whisper, she does the role of Laura Wingfield proud.
I was required to watch only 80 minutes but this a good anime.
I pity Laura's condition,no one could make her truly happy 😭❤❤
Am I the Only one Watching this in 2021 for Literature Exam. Really need a Remake like Life of Pie
I loved this Malkovich is genius in this.
She reminds me of my mum - not the "how to eat your food" bit - she wasn't obsessed - but hypercritical self-centred authoritarian, full of fantasy, deluded about herself and her kids, banging on and on about herself, about how pretty she was, how much men fancied her and how much everybody loved her; about all the men she could've had but she ended up with our dad; how she martyred herself to ungrateful selfish kids; how she kept telling the same stories - and I mean stories because most were lies or exaggerations - over and over again ad infinitum ad nauseum.
If this souvenir of your mother was not so tragic it would be beautiful. I suppose all life is beautiful in its retelling, just like the Glass Menagerie. So beautiful you cry not only for the characters but for yourself as well. Thank you for sharing.
we needed to watch this in my english class
Ashthepanda O-O I pity you. I just saw a play version that was so much better..
I am here because I had to read this book for my holiday assignment. I had a choice between this and The Handmaids Tale but I chose this. 🙃
Somebody otta kiss you Laura!
I think that Tennessee William's has a brilliant insight into the human condition. He especially really understands women
and how what it is that keeps women down and the expectations laid upon us. The state of our 1st world
attitude about what we are supposed to do and for some people life is just hard
yet no one sees.it.
Ohhh god ...This movie just made me Cry ...I feel so connected...❤❤❤💘💘brilliant work by Tennessee Williams👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Seonho Kim brings me here:)💚
Remember seeing an earlier version when I was quite young ( I am 55 now), an it stuck with me apparently. Listened today to an interview on NPR about the author today and decided to revisit. Very glad I did, thank you much for sharing. Williams was a master, though his 'provoke thought without providing resolution' style would never work/sell today. He made it feel as if it were about all of the characters, when in truth - it was Tom's story alone. Bravo aliel715.
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Saw this in my english lit college class years ago; such a great play.
Joanne woodward is an astonishing Amanda!
Nonsense ,her Amanda is an older version of her role in Sound of the Fury as Yul Byrner's step niece.Katherine was the much better Amanda Wingfield ,yes Katherine often sounded the same however she was a phenomenal actress the acting is in her face especially the eyes ,only exceptionally gifted actors can act through their eyes.The late Peter o'toole had this gift.
I prefer Katherine Hepburn
His character in all his movies is awful, I hate him but he's a very good actor !!
How could anyone speak to his / her mother the way he does; shameful !
Didn’t even took 30 seconds to dislike... or even hate the mother 😅 Good writing/acting
Altho I love Joanne Woodward, in this I thought Karen Allen and JohnMalkovich were wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
Done in 1987, directed by Paul Newman. No one is going to do a better job at those roles than John Malkovich and Joanne Woodward. Karen Allen beautiful and delicate. No surprise all three have had remarkable film careers. James Naughton as the Gentleman caller rather lets the side down and spent a lifetime on TV. Overall, remarkably good.
I could watch John Malkovitch in anything! What an amazing actor! I've seen him play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in "Mary Reilly', Lenny, in "Of Mice and Men", Blackbeard in a TV mini-series, A Muskateer in "Man in the Iron Mask", and play them all equally well. I swear the man is a shape-shifter!
How about Dangerous Liaisons with Glenn Close and Michelle Pfieffer? That's one for the ages.
My favorite part is 1:16:40-1:17:40, what he says about the movies and Hollywood is so true.
A classic! I relate to Blue roses more than I’d like to admit to myself :/
I just want to hold Laura in my arms and take her away from that old nag.
I have seen this play twice on stage and watched all versions on film. I have this on VHS, but it's impossible to watch now. Thanks for the upload. The acting is superb.
The times are a changing, the only thing that doesn't change is the lowly dollar.
I haven't looked into it, but Laura looks like the mother of the boy (the narrator) in the movie The Sandlot.
was thinking the exact same thing. i just double checked imdb and lo and behold, it IS the same person! :D also i think the actor that plays tom is the same one that plays biff in death of a salesman.
1:46:27 When Iread this moment in the play I could hardly imagine how would one say this line without sounding ridiculous, and while i hugely enjoyed James Naughton's (amazing!) portrayal of Jim, I still laughed when I saw this :)
8:17 I appreciate that they changed "n****r" to "coloured boy" in their script, it's more sensitive. Tennessee wrote this in the mid forties so that explains why the script had that word.
I hate this play and movie
Lol
I can't suffer John Malkovich in this production. He "overacts" and is far too self-important. Sam Waterston rocks in the version with Katherine Hepburn. And Katherine Hepburn is my favourite Amanda.
Completely agree.
Love the way Joanne Woodward says ' Ella you are a Christian Martyr!' Theme of so many of TWs plays
Brilliant !!!! The absolute BEST filmed version of the play.
THX FOR POSTING THIS MOVIE!
2:03:47 the greatest monologue of American drama.
I always say the same thing about that monologue
Very good version. Woodward is exceptional (as usually)!
49:33 The way Tom describes Paradise Dance Hall reminds me of Lana Del Rey.
My A/ls Lit paper in 2 Days came back to revise
We can all be like Laura - shy and introverted. Yet, we just need the right outlet or people around us - to become social and extroverted !
amigo sos un capo
طلاب الاداب انكليزي حياكم الله
مسرحية تافهه بس شنسوي مجبورين 😅
In my opinion this is a far better version then the Katherine Hepburn interpretation.
Malcovich!
Malkovich.. born to this role... and as Biff in "Salesman."
johnnrobin
Do yanks really call their sons ‘Biff’?
51:20
That sort of bracket construction holding up a fire stair is out lawed in building code of most countries.
It is an inferior construction.
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A better showing of fire escape construction is outback of Holly GoLightly's apartment, where she sings Moony River !
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I read this play in a high school English class and I've used the phrase "skip the light fantastic" ever since.
Thanks for posting this play! Love this performance of the play so much (with Joan Woodard and John Malkovich).
Thank You for This!
I love this movie
55:55
There is a fault in the play in that the old Mother would have gone to much more effort, years sooner, to secure for her daughter a man.
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There must be some reason why she has not managed to find someone for the daughter, up until now.
This movie (originally a play) is based on the early life of the playwright Tennessee Williams. He is Tom and this is how he viewed his life before going off to fight in the war and later becoming a writer
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OoYes. there absolutely is a reason. She's exhausted holding the house together. The three of them are colluding in a series of games to pretend that the life they are living is going somewhere, and avoiding facing the big questions. The secretarial course that Laura drops out of is the alternative resorted to when getting her to go courting failed. She doesn't find out that laura has bottled it until the beginning of scene two (? three?) She's made those efforts before and they've failed and she's trying to find another way.
OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic."
- Williams, Tennessee. "The Glass Menagerie, Scene 1." The Glass Menagerie, Scene 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2015. .
Thanks for posting this . Loved it
THIS WAS A VERY INTRESTING PLAY, THE GLASS MANASHERI I PLAYED THIS CHARITOR LAURA, IN DRAMA CLASS YEARS AGO, OF THE GLASS MANASHERI, I WAS TOLD I WAS NOT VERY GOOD AT ACTING, IT WAS FUN, I REALLY LIKE DOING THIS IT WOULD OF BEEN A BLESS ING TO DO THIS FOR A LIVING, BUT, WAS TOLD IN DRAMA CLASS I WASN'T GOOD, IN DRAMA AN I NEEDED MUCH MORE TRAINING, BUT THEY THOUGHT I WAS GREAT AT DOING MONOLOGES AND COMMERCIALS IM NOT GOOD AT COLD READINGS BUY I RALLY LOVE WIN I WAS IN DRAMA CLASS I LOVED IT CAUSE I GET TO PLAY OTHER PEOPLES, BUT I DIDN'T UNDER STAND HOW TO GET IN TO A CHARITOR, OR A ROLL I WOULD OF LOVE TOO BE A ACTRESS I WOULD LOVE TOO DO THIS FOR A LIVING BUT I HAVE PROBLEMS READING LINES AND UNDER STANDING THINGS, IF I COULD BE A ACTRESS IF I COULD, I WOULD LOVE TO PLAY A LAWYER, A MOTHER, A SINGER, A POLOTITION ETC ETC ETC, SOME THING VERY DIFFERNT THIN ME, AND SCENCE THEY THOUGHT I WAS MUCH BETTER AT MONOLOGES THIN I WOULD NARROATOR FOR EACH PROJECTS I DO. I WOULD LOVE TOO DO IT ALL MODEL BEAUTY PAGEANTS AND BE A ACTRESS, SING DANCE, I WISH
I COULD DO IT ALL. CAUSE MY CHILD HOOD DREAM WAS TOO BE IN SHOW BIZ, SO TOO START AT ONE THING, AND GO TOO ANOTHER AND ANOTHER IS WHERE ITS AT. MAYBE ONE DAY I'LL STILL GET TO DO ALL OF THESE THINGS, MAKE MY MOTHER PROUD OF HER DAUGHTER, AMEN AMEN
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Wonderful performances by all four!
I have seen many versions of this. Yes I get the mind aspect of it, and mental health points. However I dont understand the guilt. It was not his job to take care of his mom and sister. That kind of guilt should never be put on anyone and why should he be haunted. IT was not his problem for his mom and sister. It was not his fault what happened.
Malkovich. Genuis.
The movie is horribly miscast, a permanent rebuke to nepotism. This is an example of Yankees ruining a fine Southern Gothic play.
Ha! Yankees!
Your comment is very funny, seeing as Joanne Woodward is from Thomasville, Georgia.
And I don't get the part about permanent rebuke to nepotism...I'm pretty sure most people here don't either.
I guess I would not like to hear your opinion of Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire, seeing as she was British and not American let alone from the South.
Well you're entitled to your opinion, cheers.
The Glass Menagerie (1987 film)
Directed by PAUL NEWMAN
Written by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Based on The Glass Menagerie
by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Produced by BURT HARRIS
Cinematography MICHAEL BALLHAUS
Edited by DAVID RAY
Music by HENRY MANCINI
Production companies Cineplex Odeon Films; Aspetuck Productions
Distributed by Cineplex Odeon Films
Release date October 23, 1987
Running time 134 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3.3 million[1]
Box office $895,904[2]
Cast
JOANNE WOODWARD as Amanda Wingfield
JOHN MALKOVICH as Tom Wingfield
KAREN ALLEN as Laura Wingfield
JAMES NAUGHTON as Jim O'Connor
Plot
Introduced by TOM WINGFIELD as a memory play,
it is based on his recollection of his disillusioned and delusional mother AMANDA and her shy, crippled daughter LAURA.
AMANDA'S husband abandoned the family long ago,
and her memory of her days as a genteel Southern belle surrounded by devoted beaux may be more romanticized than real.
TOM is an aspiring writer
who works in a warehouse to support his family,
and the banality and boredom of everyday life lead him to spend most of his spare time watching movies in local cinemas at all hours of the night.
AMANDA is obsessed with finding a proper "gentleman caller" for LAURA,
who spends most of her time with her collection of glass animal figurines.
To appease his mother, TOM eventually brings JIM O'CONNOR home for dinner,
but
complications arise when LAURA realizes he is the man she loved in high school and has thought of ever since.
He dashes her hopes of a future together when he announces he is engaged.
Infuriated, AMANDA lashes out at her son for raising his sister's hopes
and
TOM leaves, never to return to his family.
The Glass Menagerie is a 1987 American drama film directed by PAUL NEWMAN.
It is a replication of a production of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' 1944 play of the same title
The film is the fourth adaptation of the Williams play,
following a 1950 feature film
and
television movies made in 1966 and 1973.
It was shown at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival[4] and the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in New York City on October 23, 1987.
It is also the last film directed by Newman before his death in 2008.
(SOURCE= Wikipedia)
The Glass Menagerie (1944 Play)
Play by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. Wikipedia
Written by Tennessee Williams
Characters Amanda Wingfield, Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Jim O'Connor, Mr. Wingfield
Date premiered 1944
(SOURCE=Wikipedia)
The Glass Menagerie (1950) - IMDb
The Glass Menagerie: Directed by IRVING RAPPER.
With JANE WYMAN, KIRK DOUGLAS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE ARTHUR KENNEDY.
Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.
(SOURCE=IMDb)
...and this spell-binding production was first aired on Network TV!
My personality is exact Same as lara,and I have an inferiority complex, also i am afraid of public speaking. But I am working on this. Hope I will overcome it soon.
It's a marvel how good Joanne Woodward is. In performance after performance her work is lit from within and seems effortlessly truthful. It's beautiful and it breaks my heart.