A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley.
First edition (New Directions)
Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Carl Van Vechten portrait photograph of Marlon Brando during the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (December 27, 1948)
Vivien Leigh in the trailer for A Streetcar Named Desire
Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
Williams in 1965
Williams at age 5 (1916) in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Williams arriving at funeral services for Dylan Thomas in 1953
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