Madeleine Sherwood

Sweet Bird of Youth -- Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago.

Oscar-winning adaptation of Tennessee Williams' acclaimed play stars Academy Award-winner Paul Newman ("Nobody's Fool," "The Sting," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") as a womanizing drifter who returns to his Florida home town with an aging movie actress only to run into trouble with his former girlfriend's corrupt father. Ed Begley ("12 Angry Men") took home an Oscar for his portrayal of the brutal mayor who seeks revenge on Newman for seducing his daughter. Oscar-winner Geraldine Page ("The Trip to Bountiful") scored an Oscar nomination as the fading movie queen, as did Shirley Knight (TV's "The Billionaire Boys Club") as Newman's girlfriend. With Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Rip Torn (TV's "The Larry Sanders Show"). Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Richard Brooks ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"). Produced by Academy Award-recipient Pandro S. Berman ("Ivanhoe," "Top Hat," "Father of the Bride").

In 1940s Georgia, a racist landowner sets out to steal valuable property from a pair of hard-working sharecroppers, one white and one black, prompting the Ku Klux Klan to meddle in both men's affairs.

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago.

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago.

Paul Newman and Geraldine Page re-created their Broadway roles in Tennessee Williams's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH for this stylish film adaptation.

Having previously collaborated on "A Summer Place," a film that helped define romantic love for a generation of moviegoers, writer/director Delmer Daves and teen idol Troy Donahue re-teamed to tell this story of an ambitious young man determined to make his fortune. He enters high society with little more than his name, his hopes, and the love of his doting mother (Claudette Colbert in her last feature film role). Juggling and struggling with relationships with no fewer than three young women along the way, he ultimately enlists the support of a savvy tobacco grower in his dangerous confrontation with a ruthless tycoon.

An ambitious young man determined to make his fortune, enters high society with little more than his name, his hopes, and the love of his doting mother.

An ambitious young man determined to make his fortune, enters high society with little more than his name, his hopes, and the love of his doting mother.

An ambitious young man determined to make his fortune enters high society with little more than his name, his hopes, and the love of his doting mother. Juggling and struggling with relationships with no fewer than three young women along the way, he ultimately enlists the support of a savvy tobacco grower in his dangerous confrontation with a ruthless tycoon.

Thrilling performances by Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives make this adaptation of Tennessee Williams's story about a wealthy plantation owner succumbing to cancer one of the most acclaimed movies in history.

Members of an avaricious Southern clan scramble to curry favor with dying, wealthy patriarch Harvey "Big Daddy" Pollitt (Burl Ives) in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of playwright Tennessee Williams's sizzling stage drama. Paul Newman stars as alcoholic ex-football star Brick Pollitt, whose self-pity and drunken malice jeopardize not only his inheritance, but also his marriage to the seductive Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor).