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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of a southern belle, Blanche Dubois, who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement. She doesn';;t understand how Stella, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Stanley Kowalski';;s buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, Mitch, finds Blanche attractive until Stanley tells him about what kind of a woman Blanche really is.
A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of a southern belle, Blanche Dubois, who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement. She doesn';;t understand how Stella, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Stanley Kowalski';;s buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, Mitch, finds Blanche attractive until Stanley tells him about what kind of a woman Blanche really is.
Actors:
Marietta Canty,
Lyle Latell,
John George,
Charles Wagenheim,
Joe Brooks,
Edna Thomas,
Wright King
Marietta Canty
30 September 1905, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Lyle Latell
April 9, 1904 in Elma, Iowa, USA
John George
January 20, 1898 in Aleppo, Syria
Charles Wagenheim
21 February 1896, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Joe Brooks
14 December 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
Edna Thomas
1 November 1885, Lawrenceville, Virginia, USA
Wright King
11 January 1923, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, USA
Director:
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
Country:
United States
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Edna Thomas
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April 25, 2012
An unqualified masterpiece.
November 29, 2014
Seeing the film reminds us instantly of our perennial desire to be swept up into a compelling story.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Inner torments are seldom projected with such sensitivity and clarity on the screen.
February 10, 2012
Epic performances in a movie that seethes with atmosphere.
February 13, 2001
The camera has done greater justice to the Williams play, catching the nuances and reflected tragedy with an intimacy that is so vital in a story of this type.
November 07, 2016
The fact it was the fifth most lucrative film in its year of release is a depressing sign of how we have infantilized ourselves as spectators. [Full review in Portuguese.]
June 28, 2007
...if the hothouse style was ever justified, this is the occasion.
July 31, 2013
Tennessee Williams filled the tinderbox. Marlon Brando ignited it.
January 01, 2000
Brando's performance as Stanley is one of those rare screen legends that are all they're cracked up to be.
May 19, 2012
... a Hollywood landmark, both for pushing the envelope of subject matter allowed on screen by the censors and for showcasing the more naturalistic "method" approach to performance ...
February 09, 2006
...Kazan achieves a sort of theatrical intensity in which the sweaty realism sometimes clashes awkwardly with the stylisation that heightens the dialogue into a kind of poetry.
January 01, 2000
Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, Streetcar is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies.