Three by Tennessee

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"Three by Tennessee"
Kraft Television Theatre episode
Episode no.	Season 11 Episode 27
Directed by	Sidney Lumet
Written by	Tennessee Williams
Based on	plays by Tennessee Williams
Original air date	April 16, 1958 (1958-04-16)
Running time	60 mins

"Three by Tennessee" is an episode of the television series Kraft Television Theatre that consisted of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams:

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External links

Mooney's Kid Don't Cry with Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant
The Last of My Solid Gold Watches with Thomas Chalmers and Gene Saks
This Property is Condemned with Zina Bethune and Martin Huston

Reception

Variety called it "hardly worth the effort".^[1]

The Montreal Star called it "an experiment not completely successful but wonderfully exciting all the same."^[2]

The Chicago Reader wrote "all plays have been skilfully shortened and given the proper mood by director Sidney Lumet and are beautifully performed."^[3]

References

↑ "Kraft Television Theatre". Variety. April 23, 1958. p. 27.
↑ "Williams trilogy bright experiment". The Montreal Star. April 17, 1958. p. 30.
↑ "Preview of today's network TV". Chicago Tribune. April 16, 1958. p. 34.

External links

"Three by Tennessee" at IMDb

v t e Works by Tennessee Williams
Plays	Candles to the Sun (1936) Spring Storm (1937) Fugitive Kind (1937) Not About Nightingales (1938) Battle of Angels (1940) Auto-da-Fé (1941) The Glass Menagerie (1944) You Touched Me! (1945) Stairs to the Roof (1947) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Summer and Smoke (1948) The Rose Tattoo (1951) Camino Real (1953) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Orpheus Descending (1957) Suddenly Last Summer (1958) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) Period of Adjustment (1960) The Night of the Iguana (1961) The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968) In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969) Out Cry (1971) Small Craft Warnings (1972) The Two-Character Play (1973) The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975) This Is (An Entertainment) (1976) Vieux Carré (1977) A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979) Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980) The Notebook of Trigorin (1981) Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) A House Not Meant to Stand (1982) In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)
Novels	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950) Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
Short story collections	Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954) Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960) The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966) One Arm and Other Stories (1967) Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
Screenplays	The Glass Menagerie (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1959) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) Boom! (1968) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2008)
Non-fiction	"The Catastrophe of Success" (1947) "A Streetcar Named Success" (1947)
Poetry	In the Winter of Cities (1956) Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)
Film adaptations	The Glass Menagerie (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Suddenly Last Summer (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1960) Summer and Smoke (1961) The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961) Period of Adjustment (1962) Sweet Bird of Yourth (1962) The Night of the Iguana (1964) This Property Is Condemned (1966) Boom! (1968) Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) The Glass Menagerie (1987) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
TV adaptations	Three by Tennessee (1958) The Glass Menagerie (1966) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) The Glass Menagerie (1973) The Migrants (1974) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984) A Streetcar Named Desire (1984) Sweet Bird of Youth (1989) Orpheus Descending (1990) A Streetcar Named Desire (1995) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
Related	List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

v t e Films directed by Sidney Lumet
Filmography Awards and nominations
Feature films	12 Angry Men (1957) Stage Struck (1958) That Kind of Woman (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1960) A View from the Bridge (1962) Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) The Pawnbroker (1964) Fail Safe (1964) The Hill (1965) The Group (1966) The Deadly Affair (1966) Bye Bye Braverman (1968) The Sea Gull (1968) The Appointment (1969) King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) The Anderson Tapes (1971) Child's Play (1972) The Offence (1973) Serpico (1973) Lovin' Molly (1974) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Network (1976) Equus (1977) The Wiz (1978) Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) Prince of the City (1981) Deathtrap (1982) The Verdict (1982) Daniel (1983) Garbo Talks (1984) Power (1986) The Morning After (1986) Running on Empty (1988) Family Business (1989) Q & A (1990) A Stranger Among Us (1992) Guilty as Sin (1993) Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) Critical Care (1997) Gloria (1999) Find Me Guilty (2006) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Television	Beyond This Place (1957) Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958) All the King's Men (1958) Three by Tennessee (1958) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Dybbuk (1960) The Iceman Cometh (1960) Sacco-Vanzetti Story (1960) Rashomon (1960) 100 Centre Street (2001–02) Strip Search (2004)

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Three by Tennessee

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