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{{quote| ''My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer.''<br|'''Violet Venable''' />}}

'''''Suddenly, Last Summer''''' was originally a 1958 one act play written by [[Tennessee Williams]]. The play is very simple in its structure. It consists of two monologues, one by Catharine and the other by her aunt Violet, concerning the death of Sebastian during the passed summer.

In 1959, it was made into a film directed by [[All About Eve|Joseph L. Mankiewicz]] and starring [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Katharine Hepburn]] and [[Montgomery Clift]]. The movie expands the story and plot quite a bit. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift) is a brain surgeon who specializes in lobotomies and has been recently hired at the State hospital to perform his procedures on patients. However, because the equipment and operating conditions are very poor, he is having a difficult time fulfilling his duties. A wealthy widow named Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers to fund the hospital so that it can build a new wing. But, there is one condition: he must perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine Holly (Taylor).

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