After The Dark at the Top of the St...

After The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, William Inge not ever again had a successful play onward Broadway. His ironically-titled A Los of Rose in 1959 (the same year as Williams's succes with Sweet Bird) was savaged by way of critics despite being the first attempt of a young actor named Warren Beatty, who couple years later would get his first movie part thanks to Inge's influence, as burst forth Stamper in Splendor in the Grass. Williams was to have fruition of at least one more Broadway triumph in Night of the Iguana and was to continue writing and having plays produc although none of them restored his former brilliance. Sadly, Inge didn't achieve succes of any kind after his Oscar for Splendor, admitting like Williams, he kept writing. Inge's life paralleled the downward spiral of his career. granting he produced a good guard adaptation of James Leo Herlihy's novel, All Fall Down (1962) the film attracted little attention, and his nearest screen-writing experience was the Bus Riley fiasco. He wrote brace more Broadway failures (Natural Affection in 1963 and Where's Daddy? in 1966) and sum of two units littlenoticed novels (Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff in 1970 and the highly autobiographical My Son Is a Splendid Driver in 1971) dispirited he took his own life in 1973 Williams, always tougher than Inge, lived another decade.