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Summer and Smoke

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Summer and Smoke
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1hr 58min
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1961
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Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' Broadway play Summer and Smoke (expanded from his one-act piece Eccentricities of a Nightingale) was brought to the screen by adaptors James Poe and Meade Roberts and director Peter Glenville. Geraldine Page repeats her stage role as minister's daughter Alma Winemiller, who lives a spinsterish existence in her WWI-era Mississippi home town. Though her hateful mother (Una Merkel) has nothing but nasty things to say about men, Alma carries a torch for her handsome next-door neighbor ... Full Synopsis
Featured Cast
John Buchanan
Alma Winemiller
Dr. Buchanan
Mrs. Winemiller
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