elizabeth taylor played big mama in cat on a hot tin roof.
elizabeth taylor played big mama in cat on a hot tin roof.
who played big mama in cat on a hot tin roof?
elizabeth taylor
big daddy and big mama (judith anderson) arrive home from the hospital via their private airplane and are greeted by gooper and his wife—and all their kids—along with maggie. despite the efforts of mae, gooper and their kids to draw his attention to them, big daddy has eyes only for maggie. the news is that big daddy is not dying from cancer. however, the doctor later meets privately with first gooper and then brick where he divulges that it is a deception. big daddy has inoperable cancer and will likely be dead within a year, and the truth is being kept from him. brick later confides in maggie with the truth about big daddy's health, and she is heartbroken. maggie wants brick to take an interest in his father—for both selfish and unselfish reasons, but brick stubbornly refuses.
cat on a hot tin roof (1958 film)
"cat on a hot tin roof" is the story of a southern family in crisis, especially the husband brick and wife margaret (usually called maggie or "maggie the cat"), and their interaction with brick's family over the course of one evening's gathering at the family estate in mississippi. the party is to celebrate the birthday of patriarch big daddy pollitt, "the delta's biggest cotton-planter", and his return from the ochsner clinic with what he has been told is a clean bill of health. all family members (except big daddy and his wife big mama) are aware of big daddy's true diagnosis: he is dying of cancer. his family has lied to big daddy and big mama to spare the aging couple from pain on the patriarch's birthday but, throughout the course of the play, it becomes clear that the pollitt family has long constructed a web of deceit for itself.
cat on a hot tin roof