
Tea and Sympathy
by Deborah Kerr (Laura Reynolds,Tom Robinson Lee),
Leif Erickson (Bill Reynolds,Ferdie),
Edward Andrews (Herb Lee),
Darryl Hickman (Al),
Norma Crane (Ellie Martin),
Dean Jones (Ollie),
Jacqueline de Wit (Lilly Sears),
Tom Laughlin (Ralph),
Ralph Votrian (Steve),
Steve Terrell (Phil,Phil),
Kip King (Ted),
Jimmy Hayes (Henry),
Richard Tyler (Roger),
Don Burnett (Vic),
Mary Alan Hokanson (Mary Williams),
Ron Kennedy (Dick),
Peter Miller (Pete),
Robert Alexander (Pat),
Michael Monroe (Earl),
Byron Kane (Umpire),
Paul Bryar (Alex),
Harry Harvey Jr. (Boy),
Robert Ellis (Boy),
Saul Gorss (Burly Man),
Dale Van Sickel (Burly Man),
Peter Leeds (Headmaster at Bonfire),
John Alton (Cinematographer),
Pandro S. Berman (Producer),
Edward Carfagno (Art Director,Art Director),
William A. Horning (Art Director),
Vincente Minnelli (Director),
Vincente Minnelli (Director),
Ferris Webster (Editor)
Format: DVD
ISBN: 883316311080
Publication Date: 01/18/2011
Edition Description: Remastered
1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of {|Robert Anderson|}'s Broadway play. The original production was considered quite daring in its attitudes towards homosexuality (both actual and alleged) and marital infidelity; the film softpedals these elements, as much by adding to the text as by subtracting from it. John Kerr plays a sensitive college student who prefers the arts to sports; as such, he is ridiculed as a "sissy" by his classmates and hounded mercilessly by his macho-obsessed father Edward Andrews. Only student Darryl Hickman treats Kerr with any decency, perceiving that being different is not the same as being effeminate. Deborah Kerr, the wife of testosterone-driven housemaster Leif Erickson, likewise does her best to understand rather than condemn John for his "strangeness." Desperate to prove his manhood, John is about to visit town trollop Norma Crane. Though nothing really happens, the girl cries "rape!" Both John's father and Deborah's husband adopt a thick-eared "Boys will be boys" attitude, which only exacerbates John's insecurities. Feeling pity for John and at the same time resenting her own husband's boorishness, Deborah offers her own body to the mixed-up boy. "When you speak of this in future years...and you will...be kind." With this classic closing line, the original stage production of Tea and Sympathy came to an end. Fearing censorship interference, MGM insisted upon a stupid epilogue, indicating that Deborah Kerr deeply regretted her "wrong" behavior.
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