The Weather Continues . . . : Remembering the Pure Love and Joy of Maureen Stapleton -- I was STRUCK SUDDENLY with Cascading Memories . . . :

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Remembering the Pure Love and Joy of Maureen Stapleton -- I was STRUCK SUDDENLY with Cascading Memories . . . :

The Pure Love and Joy that were Maureen Stapleton !!! The night I met her at the 1981 Kennedy Center Honors:

https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-7-dinner-at-seven-thirty.html

And CONTINUING through meeting President and Mrs. Reagan at a White House party the next night -- which was the LAST I ever saw (in person), Meryl Streep (or Don Gummer, her now ex-husband):

https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-8-gauntlet-and-honors.html

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Marlon Brando adored Maureen Stapleton and compared her to a large box of Cracker Jacks: sweet, sticky, messy, simple, and, in its way, perfect.

Both Tenn and Maureen remembered happy times with the mercurial and beautiful Brando, cluttered and loud and joyous, at the apartment he and Wally Cox shared on West Fifty-second Street.

If Tenn and Maureen needed to regularly repair to a bed with a radio and some imaginative memory work, they could also find what Maureen called "a kind of joy and understanding” in Brando’s apartment. ... "We were young and alive and stupid and generous,” Brando told me, “and we believed that anything could happen: Opportunities and new friends were all around us. There was no fear—for our talents or for our persons—and we were, all of us, committed to something big."

From ( Alfred A. Knopf )

Photo: Brando and Stapleton on the set of Tenn’s “The Fugitive Kind,” in 1959.

May be a black-and-white image of 2 people and guitar

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Sara Cole Alvaro
Brando and Wally Cox lived at 92 Horatio Street in far West Village.

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Scott Kenan
I was Tennessee's last assistant and also knew Maureen Stapleton very well -- my GOD -- what a woman !!!

I met a lot of others in that crowd and in the Kennedy and Reagan Families!!! https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/