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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Movie (1958)

The story of a Southern family in crisis, focusing on the turbulent relationship of a wife and husband, Maggie "The Cat" and Brick Pollitt, and their interaction with Brick's family over the course of one evening gathering at the family estate in Mississippi.

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Released:	Sep 18th, 1958
Budget:	$3,000,000.00
Revenue:	$17,000,000.00

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Main Cast

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Elizabeth Taylor
plays Maggie Pollitt

Paul Newman
plays Brick Pollitt

Burl Ives
plays Big Daddy Pollitt

Jack Carson
plays Gooper Pollitt

Judith Anderson
plays Big Momma Pollitt

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Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood repeated the roles they had originated on Broadway in the 1955 production directed by Elia Kazan. (Ben Gazzara played Brick and Barbara Bel Geddes played Maggie the Cat in that version.)
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Brick asks Maggie is she would live alone, he is at the bar putting ice in his glass, which disappears and reappears several times.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The way Big Daddy holds his cigar changes when he asks Ida to walk with him.
Elizabeth Taylor proceeded with filming even though her husband Michael Todd was killed in a plane crash on the same day the film began shooting.

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