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Oscar Saul (December 26, 1912, New York City – May 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter. Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s. His best-known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. '
Oscar Saul (December 26, 1912, New York City – May 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter. Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s. His best-known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire.
- The Playwright
- The Playbill
- The Brando Portrait
- The Original Blanche
- The Director
- The Lobby Card
- The Leading Lady
- The Global Reach
A circa 1945 image shows Williams with his lover and companion Pancho Rodriguez y Gonzales. (THNOC, 2003.0228.1.1) Williams’s lover and companion during this period was New Orleanian Pancho Rodriguez y Gonzales, who lived with Williams at 632 ½ Saint Peter Street during the writing of Streetcar. His relationship with Williams was troubled and often...
This souvenir program for A Streetcar Named Desire was distributed around the time the played opened on Broadway in December 1947. (THNOC, The Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, 2001-10-L.394) After testing the water in New Haven, Boston, and Philadelphia, A Streetcar Named Desirepremiered on Broadway on December 3, 1947, at the Ethel Barr...
Marlon Brando is shown in A Streetcar Named Desire. (THNOC, 2006.0110) Marlon Brando’s performance as Stanley Kowalski is one of the most iconic in the history of American theater, but at age 23, he was considered by some to be too young for the role. Brando himself had some reservations, but after being pressed by Kazan he took on the challenge. K...
Jessica Tandy is shown performing as Blanche. Tandy was the first to play the role, but she was replaced by Vivien Leigh for the film adaptation. (THNOC, 2002-62-L.1) The character of Blanche is one of the most nuanced and challenging roles to play in the American literary canon. Many scholars believe that the best portrayal came from the first per...
An image from Vivien Leigh’s personal photo album shows director Elia Kazan instructing Leigh on the set of A Streetcar Named Desire. (The Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, 2001-10-L.1564) Williams considered Kazan the best director to interpret his work on stage and film. In a 1947 interview for Cue magazine, Williams said that Kazan was...
A lobby card shows Marlon Brando seated at a poker table, shouting, in A Streetcar Named Desire. (The Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, 2001-10-L.2267) The film rights to A Streetcar Named Desirewere purchased by Charles K. Feldman Productions; filming took place in the summer and fall of 1950. Most of the Broadway cast was secured for th...
Vivien Leigh is pictured on the set of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her casting as Blanche was not Kazan’s choice but a studio decision inspired by Leigh’s performance in Gone with the Wind. (THNOC, The Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, 2001-10-L.1377) Vivien Leigh was not Kazan’s choice for Blanche: her casting was a decision forced on him ...
This edition of A Streetcar Named Desire, in Arabic, shows the reach of the play to a worldwide audience. (THNOC, The Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, Arabic Edition 2001-10-L, item 3708) Streetcarwas quickly translated and adapted for non-US audiences, and its universal themes immediately resonated with readers and viewers throughout th...
May 23, 1994 · May 23, 1994 12 AM PT. Oscar Saul, screenwriter, playwright and novelist who frequently adapted popular works for film and television, died Sunday. He was 81. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical...
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Writer: A Streetcar Named Desire. Oscar Saul was born on 26 December 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Strange Affair (1944). He died on 23 May 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer, Producer
- December 26, 1912
- Oscar Saul
- May 23, 1994
May 23, 1994 · Oscar Saul is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Story, Actor, Producer, Adaptation, Book, and Additional Dialogue. Some of his work includes A Streetcar Named Desire, The Joker Is Wild, Major Dundee, Affair in Trinidad, Road House, The Silencers, The Dark Past, and Woman in Hiding.
Oscar Saul. Highest Rated: 97% Major Dundee (1965) Lowest Rated: 50% The Dark Past (1949) Birthday: Dec 26, 1912. Birthplace: New York, New York, USA.
