OrpheusEurydice2.0352b_TennesseeWilliamsLumet

OrpheusEurydice2.0352b_TennesseeWilliamsLumet

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OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"

Sidney Lumet, director, The Fugitive Kind, (1960), motion picture, screenplay by Tennessee Williams and Meade Roberts.

Williams approached the Orpheus theme in Battle of Angels (1940)=1.0352a, "Orpheus Descending", poem in In the Winter of Cities (1955) =2.0352, the revised drama, Orpheus Descending (1957)=1.0352b, and in his co-authored screenplay of The Fugitive Kind (1960) =2.0352b.

In the image at right, Anna Magnani and Tennessee Williams chat during a break in filming; image from IMDB media gallery

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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