TY - BOOK AU - Joseph L. Mankiewicz AU - Joseph L. Mankiewicz AU - Gore Vidal AU - Tennessee Williams AU - Elizabeth Taylor AU - Katharine Hepburn AU - Montgomery Clift TI - Suddenly, Last Summer AV - PN1997 .S833 1959 PY - 2006/// CY - United States PB - Columbia Pictures Corporation N1 - Based on the 1958 play "Suddenly Last Summer" by Tennessee Williams N2 - From case cover: Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn each received 1959 Oscar Nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine's aunt, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of sodium pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's violent death ER -