Despite the fact the critics complained that her performance was too muted, she returned again last year in The Glass Menagerie.

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In 1945, Tennessee Williams' masterpiece, "The Glass Menagerie, " opened on Broadway.

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It says at least as much about the American national character as "The Glass Menagerie" or "Our Town, " and deserves to be seen at least as often as those two classics especially when it's done like this.

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After making his acting breakthrough in the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, Borgnine gained his first major film role in From Here to Eternity in 1953, playing a sadistic sergeant who beats up Frank Sinatra's character, Private Angelo Maggio.

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