An Italian poster for the film Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.<ul><li>Silvano Campeggi&nbsp;(Italian, 1923-2018).</li><li>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.</li><li>Paper backed with linen.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Italian Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Movie Poster

A typed carbon typescript of an early version and playbill for <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Williams%252C%2520Tennessee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tennessee Williams's</a> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Tennessee Williams (American).</li><li>N.p., 1954-1955.</li><li>120 pp., 36 pp.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes the playbill for the second week of the play's initial Broadway run at the Morosco Theatre.</li><li>In leatherette wrap bound with brads, and final title "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" in silver lettering. Label in upper left for Hart Stenographic Bureau.</li></ul> Written between December of 1954 and 1955 in the lead-up to pre-Broadway tryout in Philadelphia. It incorporates the edits made by Williams in a collection of revisions dated "9 December 1954" (currently housed at the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Butler Library, Columbia University): Big Daddy’s appearance in Act III, Brick’s admittance "I might be impotent, Maggie", and the inclusion of Big Daddy’s "elephant joke" (which was later replaced by the famous "mendacity" speech). Only 7 typescripts of this version are known to exist, most in wraps from the Liebling-Wood agency. The play premiered March 24, 1955, and the first playbill was of the week of March 21.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 

A signed first edition of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in amazing condition.<ul><li>Tennessee Williams (American).</li><li>New York: New Directions Books, 1955.</li><li>98 pages.</li><li>Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plate before "Notes for the Designer."&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper.</li><li>Bound in original brown cloth binding with black spine lettering, in original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Alvin Lustig.&nbsp;</li></ul> Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain, the characters of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of truth at the heart of the play by removing references Brick's homosexual desires in response to the Hays Code.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Signed First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/famous" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">production still</a> from the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">film</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Cat%20on%20a%20Hot%20Tin%20Roof&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</a>.<ul><li>Silver gelatin photographic production still.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Movie Production Still

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