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Writer 1930 - 1992

Meade Roberts

New York City, New York, USA

Meade Roberts (13 June 1930 in New York City – 10 February 1992 in New York City) was an American screenwriter who collaborated with Tennessee Williams on the screenplays for the films The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Summer and Smoke (1961), both based on plays by Williams. In... Read full bio →

Filmography

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4 titles
Blue

Blue

Silvio Narizzano 1968 1h 53m

A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a mexican gang.

The Stripper

The Stripper

Franklin J. Schaffner 1963 1h 35m

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

Summer and Smoke

Summer and Smoke

Peter Glenville 1961 1h 58m

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita Moreno.

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

Sidney Lumet 1960 1h 59m 8.1

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

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