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IMDbBest Foreign Actor Mejor Actor Extranjero For and | 1990 | John
Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) | 1990 | John
Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1988 | Henry
Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television | 1988 | Henry
Best Foreign Actress Mejor Actriz Extranjera | 1990 | Karen
The original Broadway stage play "The Glass Menagerie" opened at the Playhouse Theatre on Mar 31, 1945 and ran for 563 performances.
One of several films directed by Paul Newman starring his wife Joanne Woodward.
Joanne Woodward, who stars as Amanda Wingfield, had previously played both Amanda and her daughter Laura on stage.
John Malkovich's character, Tom Wingfield, is very similar to Biff Loman. from Death of a Salesman (1985), whom Malkovich had also recently played.
"Tom Wingfield: I'm going to the movies. Amanda Wingfield: I don't believe that lie! Tom Wingfield: No? Well you're right, Mother. I'm going to opium dens. Yes, mother. Opium dens. Dens of vice and criminal's hangouts, mother, I am a hired assassin, I joined the Hogan gang, I carry a tommy gun in a violin case, and I run a stream of cat houses in the valley, they call me Killer, Killer Wingfield, see I'm leading a double life, really, a simple honest warehouse worker by day, but by night a dynamic czar of the underworld, mother, I just go to gambling casinos, spin away fortune on the roulette tables, mother, I wear a patch over one eye, and a false moustache and sometimes I put on green whiskers, on, on those occasions, they call me "El Diablo," I can tell you many things to make you sleepless, mother, my enemies plan to dynamite this place, they're gonna blow us sky high! And I will be glad? I will be very happy, and so will you be. You will go up, up, up, over Blue Mountain, on a broomstick with seventeen gentleman callers! You ugly, babbling old witch!"
"Amanda Wingfield: Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine! Tom Wingfield: I will rise but i will NOT Shine..."