Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Q&A with Melissa Newman (daughter of Paul Newman), moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin.

After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), visit his family’s Mississippi plantation for the 65th birthday of his hot-tempered father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Cantankerous even in declining health, Big Daddy demands to know why Brick and Maggie haven’t yet given him a grandchild, unlike Brick’s brother Gooper (Jack Carson) and his fecund wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood). Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. 

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