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The streetcar took its name from Desire Street in the 9th Ward of New Orleans. The Desire Line ran from 1920 to 1948, at the height of streetcar use in New Orleans. The route ran down Royal, through the Quarter, to Desire Street in the Bywater district, and back up to Canal.
- Tennessee Williams
- 1947
A Streetcar Named Desire: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
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- Drama
- Elia Kazan
- 1951-09-19
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American Southern Gothic drama film adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. It is directed by Elia Kazan, and stars Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden.
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Tennessee Williams was living in an apartment on Toulouse Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter when he wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Williams would have heard the continuous rumble and clanging of the electric rail cars moving up and down the old Desire Streetcar Line, only a half-block away.
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The streetcar named “Desire” is both the name of one of the streetcars Blanche rides to her sister’s home on Elysian Fields, a street in the French Quarter, and the symbolic vehicle used all too often by Blanche in her never-ending attempt to win the affection of men.
