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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Blanche DuBois: I understand there's to be a card game here tonight to which we ladies are cordially not invited.
Blanche DuBois: That's right.
Blanche DuBois: Where's is Stella?
Stanley Kowalski: She's out there on the porch.
[Blanche walks over to the window and looks out. Across the street Stella is talking to someone. Blanche starts walking back to the curtain]
Blanche DuBois: I'm going to ask a favor of you in a moment.
Stanley Kowalski: Well now, what's that going to be, I wonder?
Blanche DuBois: Well, some buttons in back.
[She opens the curtain]
Blanche DuBois: You may enter.
Stanley Kowalski: [Stanley stands up and walks into the bedroom]
Blanche DuBois: How do I look?
Stanley Kowalski: You look okay.
Blanche DuBois: Well thank you. Now the buttons.
Stanley Kowalski: [He fumbles with them for a moment] I can't do no more with them.
Blanche DuBois: You mean with your big clumsy fingers. May I have a drag of your cig?
[He hands her a cigarette]
Stanley Kowalski: Yeah, have one yourself.
Blanche DuBois: Well thank you. It uh It looks like my trunk has exploded.
Stanley Kowalski: Me and Stella was helping you unpack.
Blanche DuBois: Well, you certainly did a fast and thorough job.
Stanley Kowalski: It certainly looks like you raided some stylish shops of Paris, Blanche.
Blanche DuBois: Clothes are my passion.
Stanley Kowalski: How much does it cost for a string of furs like that?
Blanche DuBois: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?
Stanley Kowalski: Listen, baby, when we first met - you and me - you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it, having them colored lights goin'. And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all OK? Till she showed here. Hoity-toity, describin' me like a ape.
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Nine members of the original Broadway cast (Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere and Edna Thomas) repeated their roles in the film, a highly unusual decision at the time and even today, when original casts of plays are often completely replaced for the film versions. However, Vivien Leigh, who had played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, was selected to play Blanche du Bois over Jessica Tandy to add "star power" to the picture (Marlon Brando had not yet achieved full stardom in films; he would be billed under Leigh in the film's credits).
As of 2003 it is one of only two films in history to win three Academy awards for acting. The other is Network.
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