Rave Review for DiLeo’s Tennessee Williams and Company

by Jon Hansen, Publisher on August 9, 2011

Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors cover

…Whether writing about men or women, DiLeo is insightful, opinionated, and delightfully gossipy.

That’s just one of the  poignant remarks made about John DiLeo’s TENNESSEE WILLIAMS and COMPANY: His Essential Screen Actors  (ISBN 978-1-60182-423-3) by Elizabeth McCullough at The Internet Review of Books.

Here’s some other poignant quotes from the McCullough’s review of Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors:

…Because it’s organized by actor, you revisit each film at least once, seeing it through the lens of a different performer – for example, Streetcar is discussed three times, in the Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, and Karl Malden chapters. The films never grow stale with retelling, because DiLeo draws out each actor’s unique contribution.

…And in refreshing contrast to the Hollywood taboos of Williams’ time, DiLeo is frank and funny about the sexual themes in Williams’ work, pointing out every instance in which the studios, producers, and directors made nonsense of films like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Suddenly, Last Summer with their timidity.

The entire review of Tennessee Williams and Company can be read at The Internet Review of Books.

John DiLeo’s Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors is available in paperback for $25.95 from your favorite online retailer. Tennessee Williams and Company is also available as an ebook for $9.99 on the Kindle, the Nook, and the iPad and iPhone.

 

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New Book By John DiLeo: Tennessee Williams & Company: His Essential Screen Actors

by Jon Hansen, Publisher on September 24, 2009

Author John DiLeo is writing a new film book entitled, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY: His Essential Screen Actors. Hansen Publishing Group plans to release it in October 2010.

Here’s what John DiLeo says about his new book, Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors:

The book is more about the artistic connections, some of them flat-out failures, between the actors and their Tennessee Williams roles.  They are the “essentials” because they explored more than one role, getting deeper into Tennessee Williams’ work, returning for another try, sometimes achieving two triumphs and sometimes nowhere near that, but nonetheless essential to these dozen movies.

John DiLeo examines these twelve movies in Tennessee Williams & Co.:

  1. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
  2. THE ROSE TATTOO
  3. BABY DOLL
  4. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
  5. SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
  6. THE FUGITIVE KIND
  7. SUMMER AND SMOKE
  8. THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE
  9. SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
  10. THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
  11. BOOM
  12. THE GLASS MENAGERIE (1987)

John DiLeo explores the performances of eleven screen actors in his new book, Tennessee Williams and Company:

  1. MARLON BRANDO
  2. VIVIEN LEIGH
  3. KARL MALDEN
  4. ANNA MAGNANI
  5. PAUL NEWMAN
  6. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
  7. JOANNE WOODWARD
  8. GERALDINE PAGE
  9. RICHARD BURTON
  10. MILDRED DUNNOCK
  11. MADELEINE SHERWOOD

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John DiLeo is author of three other books: SCREEN SAVERS: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery (Hansen Publishing Group, 2007), 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember – But Probably Don’t, (Limelight, 2004) and And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies: 200 Quizzes for Golden Age Movie Lovers (St. Martins, 1999).

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