A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | |
| Director(s) | Elia Kazan |
| Producer(s) | Charles K. Feldman |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance |
| Top Topics | Alcohol, Based on Play, Husband Wife, Sisters |
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A Streetcar Named Desire Overview:
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Charles K. Feldman.
The film was based on the play of the same name written by Tennessee Williams performed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NY from Dec 3, 1947 - Dec 17, 1949.
A Streetcar Named Desire was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.
Academy Awards 1951 --- Ceremony Number 24 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Marlon Brando | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actor | Karl Malden | Won |
| Best Actress | Vivien Leigh | Won |
| Best Supporting Actress | Kim Hunter | Won |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Richard Day; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins | Won |
| Best Cinematography | Harry Stradling | Nominated |
| Best Costume Design | Lucinda Ballard | Nominated |
| Best Director | Elia Kazan | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Charles K. Feldman, Producer | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Tennessee Williams | Nominated |
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Review: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 14, 2017 From 4 Star FilmsBlanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. They’re both so iconic not simply in the lore of cinema history but literature and American culture in general. It’s difficult to know exactly what to do with them.?Stanley Kowalski the archetypical chauvinistic beast. Driven by anger, prone to abuse,... Read full article
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 14, 2017 From 4 Star FilmsBlanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. They’re both so iconic not simply in the lore of cinema history but literature and American culture in general. It’s difficult to know exactly what to do with them.?Stanley Kowalksi?the archetypical chauvinistic beast. Driven by anger, prone to abuse,... Read full article
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
on Aug 11, 2014 From Journeys in Classic FilmElia Kazan’s adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire is an important film in my life. ?I first saw it in community college when we wrote compared?and contrasted the play and the film (there’s a lot of watering down in the movie). ?I wrote so much on Blanche DuBoise that by the end I was s... Read full article
A Streetcar Named Desire (1)
By The Cinemaniac on Mar 31, 2013 From Cinemaniac ReviewsReview No. 446 Directed by: Elia Kazan Screenplay by: Tennessee Williams and Oscar Saul Based on: “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams Blanche DuBois: Vivien Leigh Stanley Kowalski: Marlon Brando Stella Kowalski: Kim Hunter Harold “Mitch” Mitchell: Karl Malden Al... Read full article
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Sep 10, 2012 From 4 Star FilmsThe film adaption of the Tennessee Williams’ play, A Street Car Named Desire was directed by Elia Kazan and stars Marlon Brando as the rough Polish husband of Stella Kowalski. Vivien Leigh plays the role of Stella’s airy and superficial sister Blanche. The film opens in the French Quarte... Read full article
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Stanley Kowalski: How 'bout cuttin' the re-bop?
Stella: Mr. Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself... Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy.
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As the film progresses, the set of the Kowalski apartment actually gets smaller to heighten the suggestion of Blanche's increasing claustrophobia.
Mickey Kuhn plays the young sailor who helps Vivien Leigh onto the streetcar at the beginning of this film. He had previously appeared with her in Gone with the Wind as Beau Wilkes (the child of Olivia de Havilland's character Melanie) toward the end of that film when the character was age 5. When Mickey Kuhn mentioned this to someone else on the set of "A Streetcar Named Desire", word got back to her, and Miss Leigh called him into her dressing room for a half-hour chat. In an interview in his seventies, Kuhn stated that Leigh was extremely kind to him and "one of the loveliest ladies he had ever met."
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