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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381147520
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 10650
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 1973
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Description:
After what producer David Susskind called 'the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealing with stars,' four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbearing matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' poignant 1945 memory play, which reteamed her with director Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter). 'The Glass Menagerie' portrays a mother whose preoccupation with her past as a Southern belle and her unrealistic dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter (Joanna Miles) and her aspiring writer son ('The Killing Fields'' Sam Waterston). Michael Moriarty plays the gentleman caller whose visit offers false hope and disrupts the family's precarious balance. 1973-74 Emmy Awards - Best Supporting Actor, Michael Moriarty; Best Supporting Actress, Joanna Miles.
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Katharine Hepburn, one of the great American actresses, stars in this filmadaptation of one of the greatest American plays, Tennessee Williams'sThe Glass Menagerie. Hepburn plays Amanda Wakefield, a fadedSouthern belle now living in a small urban apartment, where she suffocatesher two children--her restless son Tom (a very young Sam Waterston) andher painfully shy daughter Laura (Joanna Miles)--with her incessantmixture of insistent cheer and guilt. After much prodding from Amanda,Tom finally brings home a friend from his workplace, in the hopes that hemight strike up a romance with reclusive Laura. The result is one of thesweetest and most heartbreaking scenes ever written. Hepburn's steely willand sudden vulnerability make her ideal for the domineering mother, butthe entire cast--including Michael Moriarty as the 'gentleman caller'--issuperb; Moriarty and Miles deservedly won Emmy awards for theirperformances. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - Katherine Hepburn is the one to see!!!Others are so so
It's rare that filmed versions of great theatre plays come across with a sense of feeling and emotion the reader receives from the book.Made in 1973, this Broadway Threatre Achive features a magnificent performance of Katherine Hepburn, and in my opinion, the only really great performance.
The drama focuses on a family living with their illusions and delusions.Amanda, whose husband deserted the family, is delusional about her past life, the gentleman callers, the ones who got away, ... Read More
Rating:  - The Menagerie -"Perfecta!"
I believe I saw this version first; when it aired on television, and had not been aware that a DVD was now available; gloriously, both terribly sad and exquisitely beautiful with K. Hepburn's and other's fine performances.And, atop my "Wish List."An earlier reviewer asked and I will say that the Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas 1950 version in DVD-R is also available at joesclassicmovies, I saw an adv. for them on Amazon.This Hepburn version, however, as with much of her particularly later work, if you ... Read More
Rating: - A FAMILY TURNS ON ITSELF
Tennessee Williams rightfully takes his place as one of the premier playwrights in the history of the American theater. He relentlessly turned out high quality plays (and other short literary expositions) on subjects that in an earlier day before the 1950's would have not found nearly so receptive an audience. Here Williams, studying a willfully dysfunctional family, relies on a seemingly autobiographical presentation of the life of a faded Southern Belle mother and her two captive children who are fodder ... Read More
Rating: - UP CURTAIN-THE BEST BEGINS
KAtharine at her best. If you like Hepburn, you'll love this Live on broadway classic. An overly ambitious Mother in a quandary on ow to move a very shy daughter on the road o matrimony, (Son-In-Law wanted) in the meantime sonny boy Waterman'sets a record for chain smoking and off to the movies every night. Finally things are looking up, when Brother brings home a co-worker to dinner. Boy meets girl, Mom likes Boy, but Oops boy already spoken for. Mothers upset, Daughters upset, and Brother leaves home for ... Read More
Rating: - Not ideal, but the best of what's out there so far on DVD
I have seen several versions of this play on DVD, and I would say that this is the best of what I know to be currently available, mainly because I think Katharine Hepburn is the best Amanda Wingfield.However, I wish Joanna Miles had portrayed a less robust Laura.She doesn't limp; she wears stylish shoes while dashing athletically out the door to the store; she demonstrates no more than an occasional interest in the glass animals that are supposed to be her obsession; under her subdued demeanor I felt enough ... Read More
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