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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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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
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own.
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister ...
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- Elia Kazan
- PG
- Marlon Brando
May 21, 2024 · A Streetcar Named Desire, American film drama, released in 1951, that made Marlon Brando a movie star and helped revolutionize acting in the mid-20th century. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Adapted by Tennessee Williams from his Broadway play, the sexually charged
- Lee Pfeiffer
Although The Glass Menagerie (1950) was William's first commercial success, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) became his signature play, full of visceral emotion and unnerving tragic realism. It earned Williams' his first Pulitzer Prize and the first of four New York Drama Critics Circle Awards.
“A Streetcar Named Desire” follows the tragic story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and delusional Southern belle who moves in with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans.
