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Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in a dramatic scene from Suddenly, Last Summer, with Taylor seated in the foreground looking down and Clift watching her intently in the background.
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Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly and Montgomery Clift as Doctor Cukrowicz in the 1959 film version of Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly Last Summer.
Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly and Montgomery Clift as Doctor Cukrowicz in the 1959 film version of Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly Last Summer.

Suddenly Last Summer

play by Williams
Also known as: “Garden District”
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Suddenly Last Summer, drama in one act by Tennessee Williams, published in 1958. It concerns lobotomy, pederasty, and cannibalism. It is the melodramatic yet horrific story of Sebastian Venable, a self-involved sadistic gay man with an overprotective mother. Suddenly Last Summer was performed in 1958 together with another one-act play by Williams, Something Unspoken; the production was titled Garden District. In 1959 a film adaptation was released.

This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering.