Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

…Burl Ives in the 1958 film adaptation of the play.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) was his adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a troubled Southern family. Despite numerous changes to satisfy the Production Code, even today it still carries considerable force, in large part because of strong performances by Paul…

…Pulitzer Prize and was successfully filmed, as was The Night of the Iguana (1961), the story of a defrocked minister turned sleazy tour guide, who finds God in a cheap Mexican hotel. Suddenly Last Summer (1958) deals with lobotomy, pederasty, and cannibalism, and in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) the…

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) was a highly praised adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play that also starred Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives; for his performance as a self-destructive former football player who is at odds with his father, Newman earned his first…

…film adaptations of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), in which she costarred with Paul Newman, and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).