History Theatre / SuddenlyLastSummer

* BuryYourGays: Sebastian didn't just die, [[spoiler:he was ''devoured''.]]

* {{Gaslighting}}: Violet seems to be an expert in this, manipulating her in-laws into signing papers to surrender Catherine and trying to undermine Catherine's testimony. Lucky for Catherine, the young woman proves to be quite assertive and strong in fighting her argument.

* {{Greed}}: Catherine's mother and brothers' motivations for money from Violet, lead to being duped by Violet into signing papers that would allow Catherine be lobotomized.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Violet. Before Catherine, she was used by Sebastian for attracting young men to him, he only quit because she supposedly didn't look as beautiful as she used to be.

* TraumaCongaLine: Cathy goes through before and during the movie beginning with her rape at the Dueling Oaks. Things seem to be looking up when her cousin, Sebastian, takes her with him on a trip to Europe only to discover that [[spoiler:he was using her lure men in order to proposition sex from them]] and then witnessing that same cousin get [[spoiler:beaten and eaten alive by enraged village boys, the same ones he used for sex]]. She has a nervous breakdown and is confined to a mental institute, only to once again be sexually assaulted by one of the male personnel. When she tells the sisters, they don't believe her and instead believe she was the one who tried to seduce him. Then she gets transferred to a state hospital where she discovers that her mother and brother are planning to have her committed and eventually lobotomized in order to collect her cousin's inheritance from her aunt. And the doctor whom she is just beginning to trust and develop feelings for? He's the one who is going to perform the lobotomy. All so her aunt could conceal the sordid truth about her son's personal life. Yeah, it really sucks to be Cathy.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the play, Aunt Violet attempts to assault Catherine with a cane after she reveals the truth about Sebastian’s death, but in the film she quietly slips into insanity and is calmly escorted out of the greenhouse.

->''"My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until [[TitleDrop suddenly, last summer]]."''

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the play, Aunt Violet attempts to assault Catherine with a cane after she reveals the truth about Sebastian’s death, but in the film she quietly slips into insanity and
calmly escorted out of the greenhouse.

* PrsgmaticAdaptation: One of the screenwriters, Creator/GoreVidal, had to re-work the play in a way so Sebastian's character is more ominous and so people can interpret the implications of his sexuality for themselves to get past the Production Code.

* AdaptationExpansion: One of the screenwriters, Creator/GoreVidal, had to re-work the play in a way so Sebastian's character is more ominous and so people can interpret the implications of his sexuality for themselves to get past the Production Code.

In 1959, it was adapted into a film directed by Creator/JosephLMankiewicz and starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor, Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/MontgomeryClift. The film, which added a comma to the original title, expands the story and plot quite a bit.

''Suddenly Last Summer'' was originally a 1958 one-act play written by Creator/TennesseeWilliams. The play is very simple in its structure. The bulk of its dialogue consists of two monologues (with frequent interruptions), one by Catherine and the other by her aunt Violet, concerning the death of Catherine's cousin Sebastian during the previous summer. %% The play's original title did NOT include a comma.

New Orleans, 1937. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift) is a brain surgeon specializing in lobotomies, who has recently been hired at the State hospital to perform his procedures on patients. However, because the equipment and operating conditions are very poor, he is having a difficult time fulfilling his duties. A wealthy widow named Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers to fund the hospital so that it can build a new wing. But, there is one condition: he must perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine Holly (Taylor).

New Orleans, 1937. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift) is a brain surgeon who specializes in lobotomies and has been recently hired at the State hospital to perform his procedures on patients. However, because the equipment and operating conditions are very poor, he is having a difficult time fulfilling his duties. A wealthy widow named Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers to fund the hospital so that it can build a new wing. But, there is one condition: he must perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine Holly (Taylor).

In 1959, it was adapted into a film directed by Creator/JosephLMankiewicz and starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor, Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/MontgomeryClift. The film, which added a comma to the original title, expands the story and plot quite a bit. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift) is a brain surgeon in 1937 New Orleans who specializes in lobotomies and has been recently hired at the State hospital to perform his procedures on patients. However, because the equipment and operating conditions are very poor, he is having a difficult time fulfilling his duties. A wealthy widow named Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers to fund the hospital so that it can build a new wing. But, there is one condition: he must perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine Holly (Taylor).

In 1959, it was made into a film directed by Creator/JosephLMankiewicz and starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor, Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/MontgomeryClift. The movie, which added a comma to the original title, expands the story and plot quite a bit. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift) is a brain surgeon who specializes in lobotomies and has been recently hired at the State hospital to perform his procedures on patients. However, because the equipment and operating conditions are very poor, he is having a difficult time fulfilling his duties. A wealthy widow named Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers to fund the hospital so that it can build a new wing. But, there is one condition: he must perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine Holly (Taylor).

%%* SouthernGothic: As you'd expect from a Creator/TennesseeWilliams story.

''Suddenly, Last Summer'' was originally a 1958 one-act play written by Creator/TennesseeWilliams. The play is very simple in its structure. The bulk of its dialogue consists of two monologues (with frequent interruptions), one by Catherine and the other by her aunt Violet, concerning the death of Catherine's cousin Sebastian during the previous summer.

In 1959, it was made into a film directed by Creator/JosephLMankiewicz and starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor, Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/MontgomeryClift. The movie expands the story and plot quite a bit. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift) is a brain surgeon who specializes in lobotomies and has been recently hired at the State hospital to perform his procedures on patients. However, because the equipment and operating conditions are very poor, he is having a difficult time fulfilling his duties. A wealthy widow named Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers to fund the hospital so that it can build a new wing. But, there is one condition: he must perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine Holly (Taylor).

''Suddenly, Last Summer'' was originally a 1958 one-act play written by Creator/TennesseeWilliams. The play is very simple in its structure. The bulk of its dialogue consists of two monologues (with frequent interruptions), one by Catharine and the other by her aunt Violet, concerning the death of Catherine's cousin Sebastian during the previous summer.

''Suddenly, Last Summer'' was originally a 1958 one act play written by Creator/TennesseeWilliams. The play is very simple in its structure. The bulk of its dialogue consists of two monologues (with frequent interruptions), one by Catharine and the other by her aunt Violet, concerning the death of Catherine's cousin Sebastian during the previous summer.

!!Tropes used in ''Suddenly Last Summer'':

->''"My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer."''