These film stills are copyright by Columbia TriStar Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. They are reproduced here in conjunction with the course website for ENLT 255: Special Collections, an undergraduate seminar held at the University of Virginia in the fall semester of 2005. Their reproduction is made possible by the fair use provisions of 17 U.S.C. 107, which limit the exclusive rights of copyright holders. For more on the fair use of film stills, see Kristin Thompson's "Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Society For Cinema Studies: 'Fair Usage Publication of Film Stills'" in Cinema Journal 32.2 (Winter 1993): 3-20. Tennesee Williams's 1958 one-act play is titled Suddenly Last Summer, but Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1959 film is titled Suddenly, Last Summer. Why that comma? Or, why not?

How does the Dr. George Cukrowicz of the one-act play compare to the Dr. George Cukrowicz portrayed by Montgomery Clift in the film adaptation? What might account for the differences between the characters?

How do we assess Catharine Holly at the conclusion of the one-act play? How do we assess her at the film's conclusion? Tennessee Williams co-wrote the screenplay adaptation along with Gore Vidal.

According to the IMDB entry on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), "Katharine Hepburn was reportedly so furious at the way Montgomery Clift was treated by Sam Spiegel and Joseph L. Mankiewicz during the filming that, after making sure that she would not be needed for retakes, she told both men off and actually spat at them (although it remains unclear just which one of the two she spat at, or if she spat at both.)"