Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Trivia / TeaAndSympathy

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Names The Same is now a disambiguation page.


* NamesTheSame: John Kerr and Deborah Kerr are not related. During the first performance of the play, John Kerr claimed several psychoanalysts started talking about IncestSubtext regarding the two lovers having the same last name.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* DawsonCasting: John Kerr was twenty-five playing Tom at seventeen. Granted he also plays him in the ten years later portions, but mostly at seventeen years.

to:

* DawsonCasting: John Kerr Creator/JohnKerr was twenty-five playing Tom at seventeen. Granted he also plays him in the ten years later portions, but mostly at seventeen years.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* CreatorBacklash: Even though he wrote the screenplay, Robert Anderson wasn't happy with some of the censor-mandated changes to his play, and felt Creator/VincenteMinnelli's direction was overly lavish, comparing his staging of the final scene with Tom and Laura to "the Second Coming of Christ."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Useful Notes/ pages are not tropes


* TheBechdelTest: The two lone females in the film just pass it barely. Laura goes to see Ellie before Tom's date with her, and gives her a gift of flowers.

Added: 284

Changed: 391

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* DawsonCasting: John Kerr was twenty-five playing Tom at seventeen. Granted he also plays him in the ten years later portions, but mostly at seventeen years.

to:

* TheBechdelTest: The two lone females in the film just pass it barely. Laura goes to see Ellie before Tom's date with her, and gives her a gift of flowers.
* DawsonCasting: John Kerr was twenty-five playing Tom at seventeen. Granted he also plays him in the ten years later portions, but mostly at seventeen years.



* NamesTheSame: John Kerr and Deborah Kerr are not related.

to:

* NamesTheSame: John Kerr and Deborah Kerr are not related. During the first performance of the play, John Kerr claimed several psychoanalysts started talking about IncestSubtext regarding the two lovers having the same last name.
* RealitySubtext: John Kerr had a massive crush on Deborah Kerr when he was a child, paralleling Tom's infatuation with Laura.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DawsonCasting: John Kerr was twenty-five playing Tom at seventeen. Granted he also plays him in the ten years later portions, but mostly at seventeen years.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The letter scene in the film was ordered by the censors. That Laura had to go out of her way to [[AndThatsTerrible state how wrong what they did was]].
* NamesTheSame: John Kerr and Deborah Kerr are not related.

Top