A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)

When she got there, she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed... Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady...

Writer and Screenplay: Tennessee Williams
Director: Elia Kazan
Producer: Charles Feldman
Composer: Alex North
Could be Blanche DuBois: Jessica Tandy or Olivia de Havilland
Fees: Vivien's fee was $100,000; Marlon Bradno received $75,000
Opened: 1 December 1951 (West Germany)

Starring: Vivien Leigh (Blanche DuBois), Marlon Brando (Stanley Kowalski), Kim Hunter (Stella Kowalski, Blanche's sister), Karl Malden (Harold "Mitch" Mitchell), Rudy Bond (Steve Hubbel), Nick Dennis (Pablo Gonzales), Peg Hillias (Eunice Hubbel), and Richard Garrick (a Doctor)

Won 4 Academy Awards: Best Actress for Vivien Leigh, Best Supporting Actress for Kim Hunter, and Best Supporting Actor for Karl Malden

Some Facts

When the prop man asked Vivien: "What sort of things do you think Blanche would have on her table next to bed?" she decided it would be a picture of Blanche when she was young, and objects that came from her past - a dance program, a gift from an admirer, a picture of her family home.

Comments

Karl Malden: Everybody in the play was in that movie, except Jessica.

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