The play also reminded me of my brother and our obsessive closeness. Amanda (the mother in Glass Menagerie) reminded me of my own mama – edgy, wayward, domineering. It was a masterpiece that dramatized a mother’s obsessive love and ambition for her children. Playing Laura in Glass Menagerie was the high point of my acting career. Could you talk some about your experience playing Laura in Glass Menagerie opposite Helen Hayes at the Palm Beach Playhouse in 1956? You recently visited New Orleans for the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Harper Collins recently published her second memoir, The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950’s Manhattan. She has also written biographies of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and the photographer, Diane Arbus, as well as a memoir about family and the Hollywood Blacklist entitled, Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story. Her book, Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, was on the New York Times Bestseller List. A winner of the Front Page Award, she taught literary nonfiction at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and Barnard College and ran the Playwrights-Directors Unit of the Actors Studio, where she was a board member. Patricia Bosworth is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. By Christine Stevralia and Marian Kaufman
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