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Suddenly, Last Summer ()

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A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
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  • Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
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Catherine Holly
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Mrs. Venable
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Dr. Cukrowicz
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Dr. Hockstader
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Mrs. Holly
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George Holly
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Miss Foxhill
Patricia Marmont ...
Nurse Benson
Joan Young ...
Sister Felicity
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Lucy
Sheila Robins ...
Dr. Hockstader's Secretary (as Sheila Robbins)
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Young Blonde Interne
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Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Grace Denbeigh-Russell ...
Asylum patient (uncredited)
Brenda Dunrich ...
Nurse (uncredited)
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Street Urchin (uncredited)
Anthony Lang ...
Inmate (uncredited)
Aileen Lewis ...
Nurse (uncredited)
Frank Merlo ...
Audience Member at Operation (uncredited)
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Mother of young patient (uncredited)
Beatrice Shaw ...
Elderly Lady (uncredited)
George Spence ...
Inmate Playing Cards (uncredited)
Florence Stark ...
A Patient (uncredited)
Julián Ugarte ...
Sebastian Venable (uncredited)
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Audience Member at Operation (uncredited)
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Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Sandra White ...
Young patient (uncredited)
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A Patient (uncredited)
Roberta Woolley ...
Nurse (uncredited)

Directed by

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Written by

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Tennessee Williams ... (play "Suddenly, Last Summer")
 
Gore Vidal ... (screenplay) &
Tennessee Williams ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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Norman Spencer ... assistant producer (uncredited)
Sam Spiegel ... producer

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Malcolm Arnold
Buxton Orr

Cinematography by

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Jack Hildyard ... director of photography

Editing by

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William Hornbeck
Thomas Stanford ... (as Thomas G. Stanford)

Editorial Department

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William Hornbeck ... editorial consultant (as William W. Hornbeck)
John Jympson ... assembly editor
John Crome ... assistant editor (uncredited)
Ron Pope ... assistant editor (uncredited)

Production Design by

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Oliver Messel

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William Kellner

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Scott Slimon

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Oliver Messel ... (uncredited)

Makeup Department

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David Aylott ... makeup artist
Joan White ... hair stylist
Eileen Bates ... hairdresser (uncredited)
Charles Nash ... assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Bill Kirby ... production supervisor

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Bluey Hill ... assistant director
Patrick Clayton ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Jake Wright ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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John Cengia ... props
Peter Dukelow ... construction manager
Martin Atkinson ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Jimmy James ... chief props (uncredited)
Fred Lacey ... property buyer (uncredited)
Basil Mannin ... scenic artist (uncredited)
Fred Mannin ... scenic artist (uncredited)
Terence Morgan ... set dresser (uncredited)
Francisco Prósper ... settings (uncredited)
James Sawyer ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Jack Shampan ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Tony Woollard ... draughtsman (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Buster Ambler ... sound recordist / sound (as A.G. Ambler)
John Cox ... sound
Peter Thornton ... sound editor
Eric Vincent ... sound maintenance (uncredited)

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Tom Howard ... photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

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Gerry Fisher ... camera operator
Archie Dansie ... chief electrician (uncredited)
Ceri Davies ... focus (uncredited)
Ray Jones ... grip (uncredited)
Mike Rutter ... clapper loader (uncredited)
Michael Walter ... key grip (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Joan Ellacott ... associate costume designer
Charles Guerin ... wardrobe master (uncredited)
Norman Hartnell ... costumes: Katharine Hepburn (uncredited)
Jean Louis ... costumes: Elizabeth Taylor (uncredited)
Lily Payne ... wardrobe assistant (uncredited)
May Walding ... wardrobe mistress (uncredited)

Location Management

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Roger Good ... location manager (uncredited)

Music Department

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Buxton Orr ... conductor

Script and Continuity Department

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Elaine Schreyeck ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Percy Condron ... cashier (uncredited)
Norma Garment ... production secretary (uncredited)
Phyllis Jones ... publicity secretary (uncredited)
Joan Kupiec ... director's secretary (uncredited)
Jean Menz ... producers secretary (uncredited)
Jean Osborne ... unit publicist (uncredited)
Peter Tidey ... unit runner (uncredited)
Midge Warnes ... production secretary (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Wealthy harridan Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) attempts to bribe Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans, Louisiana mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), to prevent the girl from defiling the memory of her cousin, Violet's poet son Sebastian (Julián Ugarte). Catherine has been babbling obscenely about Sebastian's mysterious death that she witnessed while they were vacationing together in Spain the previous summer. Written by alfiehitchie

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Taglines TENNESSEE WILLIAMS shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Soudain l'été dernier (France)
  • Plötzlich im letzten Sommer (Germany)
  • De sobte, l'últim estiu (Spain, Catalan title)
  • De repente, el último verano (Spain)
  • Внезапно, миналото лято (Bulgaria, Bulgarian title)
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  • 114 min
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Budget $3,000,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia After years of alcoholism and prescription drug abuse, Montgomery Clift was considered uninsurable due to chronic ill health. Ordinarily, he would have been fired and replaced, but his good friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor saved his job by insisting she would not do this movie without him. See more »
Goofs Although set in 1937, costumes, hairstyles and makeup worn by Dame Elizabeth Taylor are all contemporary in 1959. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into This Is It (2009). See more »
Quotes Catherine Holly: Is that what love is? Using people? And maybe that's what hate is - not being able to use people.
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