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<blockquote data-quote="Barbara Fan" data-source="post: 253054" data-attributes="member: 21">&quot;Every time I played a part, or every time I read a book, or saw a film, I felt that I knew those people, understood them. This was the gift that acting gave me--that imagination gave me. I&#039;m not saying that everyone should act: God, I&#039;m not even saying that most actors should keep acting. But I do think it benefits us all to study and to investigate and to try to understand everybody. Tennessee found nothing alien. He always said that. He never identified a human villain in &quot;Cat [on a Hot Tin Roof].&quot; The villain was time or age or decay or deceit, and all of those things have their way with us. But we can keep living and studying and overcoming, I think. I don&#039;t know. What does anybody know? You just keep doing what you think might work.&quot;--Barbara Bel Geddes/Interview with James Grissom/1990/Photograph by Frances McLaughlin-Gill/1955/Courtesy of Corbis/[ATTACH=full]24535[/ATTACH]&quot;It was for me a play about hunger. Hunger met and hunger denied and hunger delayed. Big Daddy and Big Mama have been stuffed with everything: money and food and privilege and a name. Maggie has been denied everything: standing, respect, money, the love of her husband. I always believed--demanded--that Maggie loved Brick, but the love would not be returned. Brick wanted so much to have his love returned by a man, to be seen as he was.&nbsp; And Mae, always pregnant, was full of life but stuffed tightly with hate. She was hungry for love and made weak by greed. So there were all these hungry people in a big, hot house. Operatic, funny, wild.&quot;--Barbara Bel Geddes on Tennessee Williams&#039;s &quot;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.&quot;/Interview with James Grissom/ Photo of Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, and Burl Ives from the original cast, 1955.[ATTACH=full]24536[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barbara Fan, post: 253054, member: 21"] "Every time I played a part, or every time I read a book, or saw a film, I felt that I knew those people, understood them. This was the gift that acting gave me--that imagination gave me. I'm not saying that everyone should act: God, I'm not even saying that most actors should keep acting. But I do think it benefits us all to study and to investigate and to try to understand everybody. Tennessee found nothing alien. He always said that. He never identified a human villain in "Cat [on a Hot Tin Roof]." The villain was time or age or decay or deceit, and all of those things have their way with us. But we can keep living and studying and overcoming, I think. I don't know. What does anybody know? You just keep doing what you think might work."--Barbara Bel Geddes/Interview with James Grissom/1990/Photograph by Frances McLaughlin-Gill/1955/Courtesy of Corbis/ [ATTACH type="full" width="175px"]24535[/ATTACH] "It was for me a play about hunger. Hunger met and hunger denied and hunger delayed. Big Daddy and Big Mama have been stuffed with everything: money and food and privilege and a name. Maggie has been denied everything: standing, respect, money, the love of her husband. I always believed--demanded--that Maggie loved Brick, but the love would not be returned. Brick wanted so much to have his love returned by a man, to be seen as he was. And Mae, always pregnant, was full of life but stuffed tightly with hate. She was hungry for love and made weak by greed. So there were all these hungry people in a big, hot house. Operatic, funny, wild."--Barbara Bel Geddes on Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."/Interview with James Grissom/ Photo of Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, and Burl Ives from the original cast, 1955. [ATTACH type="full" width="251px"]24536[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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