The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Cast

Jane Wyman

as Laura Wingfield

Kirk Douglas

as Jim O'Connor

Gertrude Lawrence

as Amanda Wingfield

Arthur Kennedy

as Tom Wingfield

Ralph Sanford

as Mendoza

Ann Tyrrell

as Clerk

John Compton

as Young Man

Gertrude Graner

as Instructor

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