The Glass Menagerie
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: CBS
- Keyword: sibling relationship, theater play, dysfunctional family, overbearing mother, spinsters, merchant marine, absent parent
- Cast: Shirley Booth, Barbara Loden, Hal Holbrook, Pat Hingle