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from: A&E Home Video See Larger Image List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $6.75 Third Party New Price: $6.79 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767078788 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0767078780 Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 26, 2005 Running Time: 50 minutes Sales Rank: 29916 Studio: A&E Home Video Related Items: Biography - Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life (A&E DVD Archives) Great Writers: Tennessee Williams Biography - Oscar Wilde (A&E DVD Archives) Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive) Tennessee Williams' South [DVD] Authentic Region 1 US DVD see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com: This episode of A&E's Biography series calls itself Wounded Genius and tells the story of famed playwright Tennessee Williams as his early hurts mount with depressing rapidity: his hard-drinking man's man of a father taunted him for being a sissy; his mentally unstable, puritanical mother loved him, but controlled him; his older sister, companion and 'soul mate,' suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized for life while they were both still in their teens. This 50-minute video makes the case that his early years gave him the material for his meteoric rise to success in the worlds of stage and film, but also laid the groundwork for the personal problems that would eventually be his downfall. Many viewers may know Williams for his successful works, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but this documentary also deals with his subsequent 20-year slide. His brother, biographers, and friends shed much light on his life, as do several television interviews of Williams himself. --Kimberly Heinrichs Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Big On The Drugs, A Bit Thin On The Plays On this A & E video bio of Tennessee Williams, there's plenty of talk of his drinking and drug-taking and sleeping around. There's not much on the plays, just snippets of the highly salacious trailers (of the movies made from them), and almost no analysis. Few clips of Tennessee's wonderful interviews are included, except a snippet of the Davis Frost show when he walks on drunk and a few others. Interviews with the playwights' brother Dakin, biographers Lyle Leverich and Donald Spoto, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - General Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All A&E Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - Artists & Authors