The Tennessee Williams film adaptation that does not star Elizabeth Taylor is the 1950 film "The Glass Menagerie". This film is an adaptation of a memory play by Williams that premiered in 1944. The play catapulted Williams from almost total obscurity to great fame. It is a Williams's play that has strong autobiographical elements that are used in the movie. Both the play and the film have characters who are based on Williams, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Laura.

In the 1950 film version of "The Glass Menagerie" which runs for 107 minutes, it stars Jane Wyman as Laura Wingfield, Kirk Douglas as Jim O'Connor (the Gentleman Caller), Gertrude Lawrence as Amanda Wingfield, Arthur Kennedy as Tom Wingfield, and Ralph Sanford as Mendoza. This black and white (mono RCA sound) film was directed by Irving Rapper and produced by Charles K. Feldman and Jerry Wald. It was first distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. in September 1950.

This movie version of the Tennessee Williams play about a faded, aging Southern belle, her shy, crippled daughter and her "selfish dreamer" of a son more or less sticks to the author's original story. There is however an exception for the compromise ending which strives to make the story and its characters more upbeat.

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