William Inge

William Inge was born in Kansas on May 3, 1913. After seeing The Glass Menagerie in Chicago with Tennessee Williams in 1943, Inge was inspired to write a script. He wrote Farther Off From Heaven in three months. In 1950, Inge's script for Come Back, Little Sheba was produced on Broadway, and he won the title of being the most promising playwright of the Broadway season. Inge's first screenplay, Splendor in the Grass was filmed in New York in 1960. For this film, he won the Academy Award for best screenplay. Inge quit writing plays in 1970 and began writing novels. He sadly committed suicide on June 10, 1973.

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DEANIE: "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass Glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind".

William Inge

Splendor in the Grass (1)

DEANIE: I'm not spoiled at all. I'm just as fresh and virginal as the day I was born.

William Inge

Splendor in the Grass (2)

DEANIE: I'd always worshipped Bud like he was a God. But all this time he's been a man, hasn't he? Like other men all over the world, trying to get along.

William Inge

Splendor in the Grass (3)