The Glass Menagerie

(TV movie)
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USA, 1973, 100 min

Directed by:

Anthony Harvey

Screenplay:

Stewart Stern, Tennessee Williams (theater play)

Composer:

John Barry
(more professions)

Plots(1)

"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 (Sam Waterston). Michael Moriarty plays the gentleman caller whose visit offers false hope and disrupts the family's precarious balance. (official distributor synopsis)

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