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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.
Feb 12, 2005 · Marlon Brando, repeating his stage performance as Stanley Kowalksi—half child, half animal, all menacing masculinity—is simply great. And so is Vivien Leigh, as his flirtatious, half-mad...
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the 20th century [2] and Williams's most popular work. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably a critically acclaimed film that was released in 1951.
- Tennessee Williams
- 1947
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.)
- Lee Pfeiffer
In 1951, director Elia Kazan brought Tennessee Williams’s iconic play “A Streetcar Named Desire” to the big screen, creating a cinematic masterpiece that would endure for generations.
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May 17, 2013 · In A Streetcar Named Desire a faded Southern beauty named Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her sister Stella (Kim Hunter) in New Orleans after a nervous breakdown. She is shocked to see Stella living in a seedy part of town with her boorish husband Stanley (Marlon Brando).