Research Catalog

Title

Tennessee Williams collection of noncommercial recordings, 1948.

Author

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Cook, Ray.
• Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.

Description

13 sound discs : analog, acetate.

Summary

Eleven of the thirteen recordings in the collection were made by Williams in 1948 at a New Orleans carnival booth facility.

Subjects

• Poets, American
• Songs with piano
• Sound recordings

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Access (note)

• Access to original discs restricted ; use service compact disc. Advance notification for some items may be required.

Additional Formats (note)

• Preservation tape copies of original discs in: *LT-10 1887 and *LT-10 9996.
• Service compact disc, made from preservation tapes (1 sound disc : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 42787.

Source (note)

• Campbell, Mr. S. M.

Biography (note)

• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, was an American playwright, poet, and novelist.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available online and in repository: *L(Special) 89-35.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Contents

Compact Disc contents: Two poems for Margo. I know things that can't be told ; Peto our pony -- The place has grown wilder -- Jim Conner [i.e. He sympathized with the persecuted jews] -- Heavenly grass -- Lady Anemone -- Pancho singing -- Pancho reads a review of "Glass menagerie" -- Vanilla Williams [interviews] Princess Rodriguez -- 11th scene from "Streetcar named desire" [parody] -- Down in the valley (trio) / sung by Williams ; Joanna Alberts ; Johnny Maheegan.

Call Number

*L (Special) 89-35

OCLC

NYPW89-A296

Author

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.

Title

Tennessee Williams collection of noncommercial recordings, 1948.

Access

Access to original discs restricted ; use service compact disc. Advance notification for some items may be required.

Additional Formats

Preservation tape copies of original discs in: *LT-10 1887 and *LT-10 9996.

Service compact disc, made from preservation tapes (1 sound disc : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 42787.

Biography

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, was an American playwright, poet, and novelist. Being from an old Tennessee family, he adopted his first name while in New Orleans in 1939. After graduating from the State University of Iowa in 1938, he traveled around the country while working at odd jobs and writing short plays and getting occasional productions in community theaters. He worked briefly as a scriptwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943.

He achieved sudden success with the New York production of The Glass Menagerie (1945). His subsequent success came with A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Although Williams' life was marked by personal disarray, mental stress, and drug ddiction, he enjoyed long-term relationships with male companions and continued to be productive. In 1968 he converted to Catholicism.

He also published two novels and several poems. Many of his plays were made into successful movies, but his later works were not well received and he became disaffected from the New York professional theater. He died by choking on the cap of a bottle of pills.

Indexes

Finding aid available online and in repository: *L(Special) 89-35.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Cook, Ray. Composer

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. In the winter of cities. Selections.

Research Call Number

*L (Special) 89-35

*LDC 42787