Williams tennessee

1945 · 30096 — New York: Playbill Incorporated. Good. 1945. First Edition. Stapled wraps. moderately edgeworn and lightly soiled; bound with a single staple wartime conservation which has rusted and caused the covers and the center-spread pages to detach. advertisements 28-page including covers playbill for the first Broadway production of Williams's first major success his autobiographical "memory play" starring Laurette Taylor and Eddie Dowling both pictured in the front-cover photo which opened at The Playhouse on March 31 1945. The play had originally premiered in Chicago in late December 1944. It went on to enjoy a long run 563 performances and received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the Best American Play of its season. Dowling was also the co-director with Margo Jones of the Broadway production which probably accounts for why his biography precedes Ms. Taylor's in the "Who's Who in the Cast" section; they are followed by the supporting players Julie Haydon and Anthony Ross the co-producer Louis J. Singer co-director Jones and finally Williams himself whose little bio ticks off his struggling-writer early work-life as "a typist for a large shoe concern work on a squab ranch in California elevator operator and movie usher in New York." NOTE that this playbill is from the first week "week of April 1 1945" of the Broadway run. . Playbill Incorporated paperback