“TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & COMPANY: HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS” (159)

EPISODE 159 - “TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & COMPANY: HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS” - 9/28/2026

This week on From Beneath the Hollywood Sign, we’re thrilled to welcome back one of our favorite guests, acclaimed author and film historian John DiLeo, for a fascinating conversation about his book Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors. John takes us inside the extraordinary world of Tennessee Williams on film, exploring the actors who brought his unforgettable characters to life—and what stars like Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Anna Magnani, Geraldine Page, and others brought to Williams’s singular universe of desire, loneliness, desperation, and longing. It’s a spirited celebration of great writing, great acting, and some of the most electrifying performances in movie history. Join us for a trip into the steamy, complicated, and endlessly fascinating world of Tennessee Williams and Company!

SHOW NOTES:

Sources:

Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (2010) by John Dileo;

wikipedia.com;

TCM.com;

IMDBPro.com;

Movies Mentioned:

Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Casablanca (1942)

The Glass Menagerie (1950)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Giant (1956)

Baby Doll (1956)

Bus Stop (1956)

The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

The Wild Is the Wind (1957)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

The Entertainer (1960)

The Fugitive Kind (1960)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Period of Adjustment (1962)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Cat Ballou (1965)

Harlow (1965)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Rachel, Rachel (1968)

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