During the late 40s director George Cukor considered filming the play with Hepburn as Laura, Laurette Taylor as Amanda and Spencer Tracy as "The Gentleman Caller."
The original Broadway stage play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams opened at the Playhouse Theatre on Mar 31, 1945 and ran for 563 performances.
Katharine Hepburn's first of eight films to be made for television.
Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty both went on to play characters in the original Law & Order (1990) TV series. As fate would have it, Waterston would replace Moriarty in the role of Executive Assistant District Attorney in Law & Order's fifth season.