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The eccentricities of a nightingale / WNET ; written by Tennessee Williams ; produced by Lindsay Law and Glenn Jordan ; directed by Glenn Jordan ; produced in collaboration with The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983, author.
Contributor:
Jordan, Glenn, 1936- director, producer.
Law, Lindsay, producer.
Holbrook, Hal, host.
Danner, Blythe, actor.
Langella, Frank, actor.
O'Connor, Tim, actor.
Latham, Louise, actor.
Patterson, Neva, 1922-2010, actor.
Foraker, Lois, actor.
Morrill, Priscilla, actor.
Horn, Lew, actor.
Andersen, Tobias, actor.
Weintraub, Carl, 1946- actor.
Brohn, William D., composer.
Old Globe Theatre (San Diego, Calif.), producer.
Broadway Theatre Archive, producer.
Kultur International Films, distributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983--Film adaptations.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Television plays.
Genre:
Television programs.
Television adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2002]
System Details:
DVD; Dolby digital.
digital
optical
Dolby
video file
DVD video
Summary:
"Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner portrays the sensitive spinster Alma Winemiller in this 1948 drama by Tennessee Williams, a radically revised version of his earlier play Summer and Smoke, set in Mississippi at the turn of the century. Frustrated with longing for the socially prominent young doctor next door, the eccentric, highly emotional minister's daughter decides to settle for one night with him in a rented hotel room."--Container.
Participant:
Host, Hal Holbrook.
Blythe Danner, Frank Langella, Tim O'Connor, Louise Latham, Neva Patterson, Lois Foraker, Priscilla Morrill, Lew Horn, Tobias Andersen, Carl Weintraub.
Credits:
Music, Bill Brohn.
Notes:
"Broadway Theatre Archive."
Originally produced in 1976 as a segment of the television series Theater in America.
ISBN:
0769796052
9780769796055
OCLC:
50017099
Publisher Number:
032031260597

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