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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Davis_Crawfish on 2024-09-28 13:22:39+00:00.

Of the movies Paul Newman directed, RACHEL RACHEL might be his best known movie, but my favorite movie from Paul Newman, as a director, is THE GLASS MENAGERIE, starring Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich and Karen Allen.

The music alone is breathtaking and Woodward is exceptional as Amanda Wingfield. She nails the part of a woman living through her past and struggling with two adult sons. Malkovich might be miscast, he’s just not rough enough, but his last monologue always makes me emotional, and nobody has embodied the part of Laura Wingfield in such a touching way as Karen Allen. Allen is SO underrated as an actress, she almost never truly got the big roles which could have ascended her to the big leagues. This and BACKFIRE, nobody saw them. Ugh.