Tennessee Williams

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
"Time just outran me, Big Daddy--got there first" Tennessee Williams DD $1,000 DJ THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES 2016-10-27 #7389
"Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams (in A Streetcar Named Desire ) $400 DJ THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES 2014-12-19 #6965
This playwright's family served as the model for the Wingfields in his play "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams $400 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 2013-03-13 #6563
While working at the International Shoe Company, he met a man named Stanley Kowalski, a name he would later use in a play Tennessee Williams $400 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 2009-07-07 #5732
He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof" Tennessee Williams $400 DJ PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS 2008-04-04 #5435
This Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright was related to John Sevier, the first governor of the "Volunteer State" Tennessee Williams DD $2,000 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 2008-01-09 #5373
This playwright once said that his Aunt Belle, a Sunday School teacher, was the prototype of Blanche DuBois Tennessee Williams $400 J AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS 2007-09-12 #5288
Critic Walter Kerr called this man's "Camino Real" "the worst play yet written by the best playwright of his generation" Tennessee Williams $400 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 2003-06-06 #4335
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Tennessee Williams $400 DJ PULITZER-WINNING PLAYWRIGHTS 2002-10-07 #4161
The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south Tennessee Williams $300 J PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS 2001-07-13 #3900
"Summer And Smoke" Tennessee Williams $200 J NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT 2000-05-12 #3625
"The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams $200 DJ NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT 1999-05-06 #3389
A defrocked minister-turned-tour guide is the leading character in his play "The Night of the Iguana" Tennessee Williams $200 DJ PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS 1995-11-13 #2576
Of all his plays, "A Streetcar Named Desire" had the longest run on Broadway Tennessee Williams $200 DJ PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS 1995-06-19 #2501
"Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed" is a book of short stories by this "Summer and Smoke" author Tennessee Williams $800 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 1994-07-04 #2281
A famous line in one of his award-winning works is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams $800 DJ PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS 1994-02-21 #2186
"Garden District" was a double bill of his "Something Unspoken" & "Suddenly Last Summer" Tennessee Williams $200 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 1991-12-18 #1683
Late southern playwright who co-wrote "You Touched Me!", a comedy based on a story by D.H. Lawrence Tennessee Williams $800 DJ PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS 1991-11-08 #1655
He was 61 when he made his acting debut in 1 of his own plays, "Small Craft Warnings", in 1972 Tennessee Williams FJ AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS 1991-03-25 #1521
M. Stapleton, Eli Wallach, Jessica Tandy &M. Leighton all won Tonys for performances in his plays Tennessee Williams FJ AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS 1989-06-16 #1120
His daddy used to say, "You're makin' me nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof!" Tennessee Williams $200 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 1987-12-16 #758
Rex Reed claims he saw this Southern playwright almost hit by a bus named Desire Tennessee Williams $200 DJ PLAYWRIGHTS 1986-12-31 #538
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