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Sibling Rivalry | Condescending
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Top Ten Films | 1958
Motion Picture | 2018
Top Female Dramatic Performance | 1959 | Elizabeth
Best Cinematography Color | 1959
Best Picture | 1959
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1959 | Elizabeth
Best Director | 1959 | Richard
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1959 | James
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1959 | Paul
Best Film from any Source | 1959
Best Foreign Actor | 1959 | Paul
Best Foreign Actress | 1959 | Elizabeth
Best Written American Drama | 1959 | Richard
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1959 | Richard
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 17,570,324 USD
Elizabeth Taylor proceeded with filming, even though her husband Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash on the same day shooting began.
Tennessee Williams wrote the role of "Big Daddy" Pollitt with Burl Ives in mind. Prior to the original stage production, Ives was known primarily as a folk singer, and many within the theatre community questioned Williams' decision. Ives won rave reviews in the role on stage and screen, and went on to a long and prestigious acting career.
This movie was originally to be filmed in black-and-white, as was the standard practice with "artistic" movies in the 1950s. (Virtually all movie adaptations of the plays of Tennessee Williams had been in black-and-white up to that time.) However, once Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor were cast in the leads, writer and director Richard Brooks insisted on shooting in color, in deference to the public's well-known enthusiasm for Taylor's violet and Newman's strikingly blue eyes.
When Paul Newman agreed to play the role of Brick Pollitt, he was under the impression this movie would simply adapt the original script into a screenplay. When the screenplay deviated wildly from the stage text over Tennessee Williams' objections, Newman expressed his disappointment.
Burl Ives was only one year older than Jack Carson, who played his eldest son, and sixteen years older than Paul Newman, who played his youngest.
"Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?"
"Brick Pollitt: What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Just staying on it I guess, long as she can."
