Question: Which eight-time Academy Award nominee was Tennessee Williams's choice to play a leading role in his play "Clothes for a Summer Hotel"?

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Michael Granger (May 14, 1923 - October 22, 1981) Born Milton Grossman in Kansas City, MO, Granger was an American actor.  He is known for appearing in "The Big Heat" and in B movies such as "Creature With The Atom Brain", as well as on TV shows including "Rawhide", "Kojak" and "The Untouchables".  He created the role of Lazar Wolf, the butcher, in the original Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1964, and can be heard on the original cast album singing "L'Chaim" with Zero Mostel.  He appeared in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center with Liv Ullman in 1975, and was again on Broadway in 1980 in Tennessee Williams's "Clothes for a Summer Hotel."  Known for his resonant bass speaking voice, in the final years of Granger's life, he became a sought after voice over actor.  He died October 22, 1981 in New York, NY of heart failure. My Brother is a 2006 film directed by Academy Award nominee Anthony Lover.  It stars Vanessa L. Williams, Tatum O'Neal, Nashawn Kearse and Fredro Starr.  It also stars two first time actors with Down syndrome, Christopher Scott and Donovan Jennings.  Two developmentally disabled actors played leading roles, and also an African American actor with a developmental disability played a leading role. Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948) is an American actress.  She made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of "Much Ado About Nothing" and appeared in her first film in 1976 in "All the President's Men".  For her role in the 1984 film "Places in the Heart", she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.  Her other films include "Slap Shot" (1977), "Between the Lines" (1977), "The Verdict" (1982), "Prefontaine" (1997), and "The Insider" (1999).  She also had a leading role in the 1987 film "House of Games", which was directed by her then-husband David Mamet.  In 1996, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for "Between Mother and Daughter", an episode of "CBS Schoolbreak Special".  She is also a Grammy Award nominee. Clothes for a Summer Hotel is a 1980 play by Tennessee Williams about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda.  A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime.  The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays the institutionalized Zelda at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, with a series of flashbacks to their marriage in the twenties.  Williams began work in 1976 on what he envisioned as a "long play" about the Fitzgeralds (he eventually cut it down), and had Geraldine Page in mind to play Zelda from the start. Spring Storm is a 1937 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams.  Tennessee Williams wrote "Spring Storm" when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while studying as an apprentice.  "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California.  The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside "Beyond the Horizon" by Eugene O'Neill.  Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre.  Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression. Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American film, television and stage actress.  An eight-time Academy Award nominee, she was nominated for "Hondo" (1953), "Summer and Smoke" (1961), "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962), "You're a Big Boy Now" (1966), "Pete 'n' Tillie" (1972), "Interiors" (1978) and "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful" (1985). Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham ( ; born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.  An eight-time Emmy Award nominee, she won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for "Amber Waves" in 1980 and "George Wallace" in 1998.  She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film "Georgia". Rolandos Liatsos (born May 30, 1990, Cyprus) is a Cypriot stage actor.  He started his career at the age of 17 with Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and suddenly made his breakthrough starring in Iakovos Kambanellis’ masterpiece “Stella With the Red Gloves.”  After the big success of this play Rolandos moved to Coventry where he starred in “The Tempest” and soon after starred in his opera prima as a director and writer of “Unpublished by Alex.” This play catapulted him to Los Angeles, CA to work with Academy Award Winner Milton Justice in the play “Woman in Mind.”  Soon after he starred in Tennessee Williams’ play “The Rose Tattoo” directed by the acclaimed actor and director .  With his extensive theater experience focusing on various styles, including: outdoor theater, experimental, Shakespeare, Physical theater, and Naturalism, he was able to bring to life Arturo Ui, a character based on Adolf Hitler in Bertolt Brecht's play "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui."  In this political satire of the German writer, Rolandos gave his most successful performance yet. Michael C. Flessas (born June 2, 1959 in Miami, Florida), is the birth name of American actor Michael Flessas, who is of Greek ancestry.  Flessas' most notable film role was "Angry Man" in the Cannes Film Festival 2000 Palme d'Or winning film "Dancer in the Dark" directed by Danish film director Lars von Trier.  Originally, the director himself considered playing the role but, instead, the role was given to Flessas.  "Dancer in the Dark" starred Icelandic singer/actress Björk who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role.  French film icon, César Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, and other noteworthy artists such as Academy Award and Tony Award winner Joel Grey, Peter Stormare, David Morse, and Stellan Skarsgård also performed in the multiple prize winning film.  One of Björk's songs for the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song. Shea Kerry is an American writer and producer.  He played the role of "Steve" in the thriller "Dark Honeymoon" (2008), starring Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider ("All That Jazz", "The French Connection"), Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts ("Runaway Train"), Steve Wilder, and Daryl Hannah.

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Clothes for a Summer Hotel is a 1980 play by Tennessee Williams about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda.  Williams began work in 1976 on what he envisioned as a "long play" about the Fitzgeralds (he eventually cut it down), and had Geraldine Page in mind to play Zelda from the start.  An eight-time Academy Award nominee, she was nominated for "Hondo" (1953), "Summer and Smoke" (1961), "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962), "You're a Big Boy Now" (1966), "Pete 'n' Tillie" (1972), "Interiors" (1978) and "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful" (1985).