Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel ...

Tennessee Williams (1911-83) told his authorized biographer Lyle Leverich that the 1961 film of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was his favorite movie based on one of his works. It's interesting to ...

Tennessee Williams never intended to write “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone” as a novella back in 1950. It only found life in print after Greta Garbo reaffirmed that she did, indeed, want to be alone.

byTennessee Williams. New Directions, $2.00. Mr. Williams’s first excursion into the novel describes the harrowing “Drift” of a middle-aged American woman of great wealth — a celebrated actress just ...

THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (148 pp.)—Tennessee Williams—New Directions ($2). Playwright Tennessee Williams’ first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass ...

At a certain age, many movie actresses retire to television. Others grow old gracefully. And the best way an actress can do that—as two once glamorous screen queens made vividly evident last week—is ...

A failing star is faced with a lifestyle change when her rich husband suddenly dies while they are en route to Italy. She then sets off in a series of flings with gigolos found for her by an aging ...