Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies. The main reason he returns to his home town is to get back what he had in his youth; primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before.
The play begins with the protagonist, Chance Wayn...
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Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies. The main reason he returns to his home town is to get back what he had in his youth; primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before.
The play begins with the protagonist, Chance Wayne, Driving to a hotel with Princess Kosmonopolis, alias of aging in-hiding actress Alexandra del Lago. Alexandra didn't like her last film debut and had to run away. Chance is a bastard, and the love of his life Heavenly Finley is the daughter of the puritan evangelist mayor, who wants to flaunt his daughter around town as a virgin in a white dress. Heavenly loves Chance, but her father wouldn't have it, he tricked Chance Wayne to go to Broadway with a promise that if he returns a star he will be able to marry Heavenly. Chance ended up working...
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