A bracelet owned by Helen Burton and taken by Rosalie Wells provides the means whereby Mary Tilford coerces her friend's silence.
The 1961 film version of this play featured Miriam Hopkins as Lily, 25 years after she had played one of the two main female characters in another film version of this play.  The earlier film featured Joel McCrea in a role played by James Garner in the later film, both of which were directed by William Wyler.  Both men played a character who is asked to leave after a question he asks is interpreted as an expression of disbelief.  A bracelet owned by Helen Burton and taken by Rosalie Wells provides the means whereby Mary Tilford coerces her friend's silence. Ending with the abrupt offstage suicide of Martha Dobie, FTP, name this play in which lives are shattered by suspicion of lesbianism at a girls' school, a work by Lillian Hellman.
The 1961 film version of this play featured Miriam Hopkins as Lily, 25 years after she had played one of the two main female characters in another film version of this play.  
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