July 7, 2011, Filed Under: FilmMethod actor Karl Malden stars in both stage and film version of "Baby Doll" The Tennessee Williams Film Series continues tonight at the Ransom Center with Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (1956), featuring Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, and Carroll Baker. The series runs on some Thursdays through July 21 and features films highlighted in the current exhibition, Becoming Tennessee Williams, which runs through July 31.… read more
July 6, 2011, Filed Under: ArtFrida Kahlo self-portrait returns to the Ransom Center in time for Kahlo’s 104th birthday Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s Self–portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) has returned to the Ransom Center and is on display in the lobby beginning today, which is Kahlo’s 104th birthday, and runs through January 8, 2012. The painting, one of the Ransom Center’s most famous and frequently borrowed art works,… read more
June 28, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingVideo highlights scholar’s work in Beckett collection Mark Byron came to the Ransom Center last year as a fellow from the University of Sydney to work on his project, “The Holograph Manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt: A Digital Representation and Transcription.” Byron spent his time at the Ransom Center going through the seven notebooks of Beckett’s… read more
June 23, 2011, Filed Under: Film"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" helps propel Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor to stardom The Tennessee Williams Film Series at the Ransom Center continues tonight with Richard Brooks’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. The series runs on some Thursdays through July 21 and features films highlighted in the current exhibition, Becoming Tennessee Williams, which runs through… read more
June 21, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, ConservationThe Immortal Hoax of William Henry Ireland “I’m happy that this book is stable enough for scholars to use,” said Inkyung Youm, a graduate intern in the Ransom Center’s Conservation Department, when asked about the most satisfying part of conserving a book of fabricated Shakespearian manuscripts. When Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal… read more
June 16, 2011, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsIn the galleries: Mailer’s character timeline for "Harlot’s Ghost" Norman Mailer was among the most prominent cultural and literary figures in late twentieth-century America. His talent as a writer was apparent early in his career; he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, which was published in 1948 when he was only… read more
