Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

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This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil at the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor.

At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old author, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to determine if he or his work had mattered to those that had so deeply mattered to him. Some of the more than seventy men and women with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the unique Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was once a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it changed into sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and plenty of more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

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