<P> The Lady of Larkspur Lotion was written in 1941 . It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine (à la Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire) and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment . </P> <P> At Liberty was written in 1941 and tells the story of a once - successful actress who retreats to her childhood home in Mississippi, with fantasies of resuscitating her career . </P> <P> In January 1941, Williams completed a one - act play centering on "a deranged spinster living in poverty and with her memories of a former lover ." Variously titled Port Mad and The Leafless Block, he revised the play in 1944 and renamed it Portrait of a Madonna . After seeing Jessica Tandy's performance in a 1947 West Coast production of Madonna, Williams decided to cast her in the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire . He later wrote, "It was instantly apparent to me that Jessica was Blanche (DuBois)." </P> <P> Moony's Kid Don't Cry originated as an eight - page melodrama titled Hot Milk at Three in the Morning, which Williams wrote in 1930 at the University of Missouri . Hot Milk was produced at MU in 1932, and was revised and titled Moony's Kid Don't Cry in 1941, when it was published in Margaret Mayorga's Best One Act Plays of 1940 . It was the first of Williams' plays to be published . In both versions of the play, a poor young married couple get into an argument over their child and, eventually, their relationship . </P>

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