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Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and His Women

Documentary supporting and extending "Follies of God" (Knopf), a study of the people, places, and things that inspired Tennessee Williams.

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Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and His Women

Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and His Women

Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and His Women

Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and His Women

Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and His Women

Documentary supporting and extending "Follies of God" (Knopf), a study of the people, places, and things that inspired Tennessee Williams.

Documentary supporting and extending "Follies of God" (Knopf), a study of the people, places, and things that inspired Tennessee Williams.

Documentary supporting and extending "Follies of God" (Knopf), a study of the people, places, and things that inspired Tennessee Williams.

Documentary supporting and extending "Follies of God" (Knopf), a study of the people, places, and things that inspired Tennessee Williams.

James Grissom
James Grissom
James Grissom
James Grissom
5 Campaigns |
New York, United States
$1,210 USD 12 backers
24% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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In 1982 Tennessee Williams agreed to meet me for lunch in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Lunch--begun at The Court of Two Sisters--turned into a five-day banquet of conversation, during which he gave me the names and the stories of those people, primarily women, who had not only changed his life, but who allowed him, at this "sad and diminished age," to continue to wake up in the morning and face the pale judgment, which is what he called the blank page.

 

A rosary purchased at St. Louis Cathedral ("Louie's Place," he called it) had its beads re-named for these women (and one man, Elia Kazan), and I was to use it to summon inspiration and courage.

 

Tennesse felt that God created mud and man--the utilities of the world--in the earliest moments of creation, establishing a foundation for life, but he then realized that the world needed beauty and color and curiosity, so he invented woman. Tenn called women the follies of god.

 

The book "Follies of God" is to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, and this film would expand and support what is in that book, including portraits of Tennessee and some of his women: Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Ashley, Lois Smith, Laurette Taylor, Rachel Roberts, and many others.

 

Preliminary production has begun--these funds would expedite matters.

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Film credit

$50 USD
All donors will be thanked in the credits of the film.
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October 2013
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Vault Run

$150 USD
Tennessee gave me many interesting things associated with his career--lobby cards, posters, etc. Over the years the same items were given to me by the women I interviewed. Many have been given estimates, and you can have a go at the inventory and select your item.
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July 2012
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Carl Van Vechten Photograph

$1,000 USD
Original Carl Van Vechten photograph, nude, of dancer Hugh Laing (1911-1988).
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July 2012
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