Tennessee Williams Biography (True or False)

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The narrator refers to Tennessee Williams as the "Crazy Genius."

False (Wounded Genius)

"The Gentleman Caller" later was named "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

False

As a child Williams suffered with polio

False

Tennessee Williams was given his name because he was born in that state

False

Williams was widely successful when he died

False

Williams' only enduring relationship was with an actor named Marlon Brando

False (Frank Merlo)

"The Glass Menagerie" is about Williams' homosexual relationships

False (It was about Rose)

William's lover died from AIDS

False (Lung Cancer)

In her late teens Rose had to be hospitalized by diphtheria

False (Mental problems)

Williams attended 4 different colleges before graduating

False (Only 3)

The police concluded that Williams was murdered because he was planning to change his will

False (Some said suicide and others thought murder)

Audrey Woods was William's long-time agent

True

His father was a violent man who was a womanizer and a poker player

True

His mother was Puritanical and warned the children that God would punish them

True

In 1938 Williams moved to New Orleans

True

Williams and his sister Rose were very close

True

Williams is regarded as having single handedly kept the theatre alive in the 50s and 60s

True

Williams moved to Hollywood in the summer of 1943

True

Williams showed up drunk for a talk show with David Frost

True

Williams was a perfectionist

True

Williams won 2 Pulitzer Prizes for his plays

True

Many claim that critics killed Williams

True ("The critics who made him, broke him")

Williams was considered a wordsmith because his plays were filled with poetic language

True (He was a playwright and poet)

Williams was nicknamed Tenacity Williams

True (He was always willing to work)

Near his death, Williams became paranoid that people were going to kill him

True (He was rejected by the theatre)


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