William IngeFilmography

Born:: May 3, 1913 in Independence, KS
Occupation:: Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author
Biography:: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright William Inge has had many of his short stories and stage productions adapted to the screen. Examples include Come Back Little Sheba (1952) and Bus Stop (1956). He also penned three screenplays of his own, one of which Splendor in the Grass (1961), a film he also...Read More

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Picnic

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Josh Brolin, Ben Caswell, Gretchen Mol, Chad Morgan

Synopsis: Originally staged on Broadway in 1953 and filmed two years later, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic drama Picnic went before the cameras a second time in 2000 as a made-for-TV movie. Josh Brolin stars as Hal Carter, a handsome and impecunious drifter who shows up in a tranquil Kansas Read More

2000
Splendor in the Grass

Crew: From Screenplay by

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: William Inge's sexual-awakening drama had already been satisfactorily filmed by director Elia Kazan 1961, twenty years before this TV movie made its debut. Melissa Gilbert and Cyrill O'Reilly are not a completely fair trade for the original film's Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, but the players Read More

1981
Come Back, Little Sheba

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Laurence Olivier, Carrie Fisher, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster was too young to play alcoholic, disillusioned Doc Delaney in the 1952 film version of William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba. At age 70, Laurence Olivier was too old for the part, yet Olivier's performance is far more persuasive than Lancaster's in this 1977 TV-movie remkae of Read More

1977
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Carolyn Jones, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Inge, this drama follows the attempts of two doctors to help a 35-year-old educator deal with a brutal rape. The incident is complicated by the fact that she was a virgin when it happened and that her attacker was a man she had been trying to help. The racial Read More

1971
Bus Riley's Back in Town

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ann-Margret, Michael Parks, Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter, Jocelyn Brando

Synopsis: William Inge co-wrote this story about a young man who may have outgrown the straight-laced boundaries of his home town. After a hitch in the Navy, Bus Riley (Michael Thomas Parks) comes home to the staid Midwestern town of his birth; however, home doesn't feel quite like it used to, and Riley is Read More

1965
The Stripper

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber

Synopsis: This routine tale of an aspiring actress on the verge of a sharp decline is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and features Joanne Woodward in a skillful and engaging portrayal of Lila, the would-be thespian. The setting is a small town in the plains state of Kansas where Lila finds herself Read More

1963
All Fall Down

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, Brandon de Wilde

Synopsis: In one of his first roles, Warren Beatty plays a callous, self-involved young man who is idolized by his younger brother Brandon DeWilde. When Beatty and DeWilde's parents Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury take in Eva Marie Saint as a boarder, Beatty makes violent love to the poor (but not entirely Read More

1962
Splendor in the Grass

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert

Synopsis: 1961's premiere "date" movie represented the screen debut of Warren Beatty. Set in the 1920s, William Inge's screenplay concerns the superheated romance between working-class high schooler Natalie Wood and rich kid Beatty. Trying their best to keep their relationship from going "all the way," Read More

1961
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Preston portrays an early 20th-century harness salesman, fully aware that his product is rapidly becoming obsolete. He tries to compensate for his own lack of self-esteem by Read More

1960
Bus Stop

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart

Synopsis: In this cinemadaptation of William Inge's Broadway comedy Bus Stop, Marilyn Monroe is cast as Cherie, a fifth-rate nightclub chanteuse who captures the heart of Montana rodeo champ Bo (Don Murray). He, in turn, kidnaps Cherie and bundles her off to the roadside bus stop of the title. Gradually Read More

1956
Picnic

Crew: Play Author

Actors: William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan Read More

1955
Come Back, Little Sheba

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel, Philip Ober

Synopsis: In the original Broadway production of this William Inge play, Shirley Booth played Lola Delaney, the vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" of recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney, played on stage by Sidney Blackmer, who won a Tony award for his efforts. When time came to film the play, Shirley Booth Read More

1952

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William IngeFilmography

Picnic

Splendor in the Grass

Come Back, Little Sheba

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Bus Riley's Back in Town

The Stripper

All Fall Down

Splendor in the Grass

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Bus Stop

Picnic

Come Back, Little Sheba

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