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For the last decade of Audrey Wood’s professional life, she experienced the usual highs and lows of the business. However, her deep distress over the loss of Liebling and her rejection by longtime clients William Inge and Tennessee Williams created emotional and physical stresses that finally contributed to the end of her career in a way unanticipated by all who knew her.
I’ve always tried to work with writers whose quality of work I admire.1
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Richard Watts, Jr., “Milk Train,” New York Post, January 21, 1963, reprint, vol. 24, New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews 1963, vol. 24 (New York: Critics’ Theatre Reviews, Inc., 1964), 391. The magazine critics were less kind. Richard Williams, “Mistuh Williams, He Dead,” Commonweal 7 (February 8, 1963), 515–17, referred to the play as “creative suicide.”
Liz Woodman, assistant to Tony Richardson, in conversation with the Author, June 10, 2008. Cited with permission of Liz Woodman. Also, Tony Richardson, Long Distance Runner: A Memoir (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1993), 145.
Donald Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1985), 273.
Stefan Kanfer, “White Dwarf’s Tragic Fadeout,” Life 66 (June 13, 1969): 10.
Tennessee Williams, Memoirs (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1975), 229.
Wood, Represented by Audrey Wood, 308. See also Jared Brown, The Fabulous Lunts: A Biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (New York: Atheneum, 1986), 443.
Quoted in Wood Represented by Audrey Wood, 308. See also Anne Edwards, A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985), 282–83.
Helen Sheehy, Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 407.
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Barranger, M.S. (2013). Guardian Angel. In: Audrey Wood and the Playwrights. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270603_13
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