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An actress’s pet monkey stole her jewels while shooting an adaptation of a work by this author that replaced its eight-word title with the catchier Boom! On her first day shooting a film based on a work by this author, that actress suffered survivor’s guilt after a plane crash killed her husband Mike Todd. Joanne Woodward delivered the first mainstream film use of “son of a bitch” in a film written by this author, who waited until Anna Magnani (“mahn-YAH-nee”) learned English to write a screenplay about a seamstress. In a film written by this author, Carroll Baker popularized a style of (*) nightgown. Richard Brooks insisted on filming a 1959 adaptation of a work by this author in color in admiration of the blue and violet irises of Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. Manuela replaces a stoned actress in a performance of a play by this author in All About My Mother. For 10 points, name this playwright who wrote Vivien Leigh’s line “I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers.” ■END■
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams [or Thomas Lanier Williams III] (The unnamed films are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Fugitive Kind, The Rose Tattoo, Baby Doll, and A Streetcar Named Desire.)
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