Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was instrumental in developing his interest in theater.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

A 24-year-old Brando as Stanley Kowalski on the set of the stage version of A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) | A Streetcar Named Desire, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1948

Brando achieved stardom, however, as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan.

The screen test appears as an extra in the 2006 DVD release of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Brando brought his performance as Stanley Kowalski to the screen in Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for that role, and again in each of the next three years for his roles in Viva Zapata!

Karl Malden, Brando's fellow actor in A Streetcar Named Desire, On The Waterfront, and One-Eyed Jacks ( the only film directed by Brando ), talks in a documentary accompanying the DVD of A Streetcar Named Desire about a phone call he received from Brando shortly before Brando's death.

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She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

As Blanche DuBois, from the trailer for the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 film ) | A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ).

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

In fact, many of the classic streetcar suburbs are within the political boundaries of their respective cities, such as West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a part of which has is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District.

" His stage direction of Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire is considered a " high point of world theater " in the 20th century.

Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire is also based on her.

On his seventeenth birthday, Esteban is hit by a car and killed while chasing after actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which she portrays Blanche DuBois.

Wiggum often orchestrates or appreciates plays and other shows in prison with the inmates, played a major role in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire in the episode " A Streetcar Named Marge ", and his fondness for the art form is even specifically stated in " Wild Barts Can't Be Broken ".

The screen test is included on a 2006 special edition DVD of the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire.

There is a prominent mention of Long in Tennessee Williams ' play A Streetcar Named Desire and other film versions.

Columbus is the birthplace of famous playwright Tennessee Williams, author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.

The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system in Portland, Oregon, that opened in 2001 and serves areas surrounding downtown Portland.

But unlike MAX, the streetcar system is owned by the city of Portland and managed by Portland Streetcar Incorporated, a non-profit public benefit corporation whose board of directors report to the city's Bureau of Transportation.

TriMet tickets and passes are also valid on the Portland Streetcar, which is owned by the City of Portland but operated mostly by TriMet personnel under a contract with the city.

: Also known as the Arakawa Metropolitan Streetcar Line, it is Tokyo's only remaining streetcar line.

No regular monthly or all-day passes from either TriMet or C-TRAN are now accepted on the Premium buses, unless a passenger purchases a $ 105 Premium pass ( which is also valid as an All-Zone pass in C-TRAN, Portland Streetcar and TriMet ).

Passengers who use a C-Zone fare must pay each time they board the bus or purchase a Day Pass either a C-Zone day pass valid only on C-TRAN Local and Limited routes or a GoAnywhere Express Day pass which is also valid on TriMet and the Portland Streetcar.

Tennessee Williams first became a regular visitor to Key West in 1941 and is said to have written the first draft of A Streetcar Named Desire while staying in 1947 at the La Concha Hotel.

The Portland terminal is one block south of the Portland Streetcar terminus at SW Lowell St. (& Moody Ave .).

It is proposed to convert the line into an extension of the Portland Streetcar, running through Johns Landing and into Lake Oswego.

The main street is broad Carrollton Avenue, lined with live oaks, with the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar running on the " neutral ground " or central median.

He is parodied in The Simpsons episode " A Streetcar Named Marge " as William F. George, a syndicated columnist who has been invited as a member of the panel of celebrity judges for a beauty pageant.

The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line ( CHSL ) is a heritage streetcar line in Minneapolis, Minnesota which follows original streetcar right-of-way between Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun and is operated by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum.

* 3 Heritage Streetcars are being considered for the River Street Streetcar line.

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 film ) | A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )

In 1951, after introducing and directing one of the Actors Studio's brightest young talents, Marlon Brando, in the stage version, he went on to cast him in film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which made Brando a star and won 4 Oscars, being nominated for 12.

Biographer Suzanne Finstad notes that a " turning point " in her life as an actress was upon seeing the film A Streetcar Named Desire: " She was transformed, in awe of Kazan and of Vivien Leigh's performance ... became a role model for Natalie.

On Broadway, he worked with Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and William Inge ; in film, he worked again with Willams ( A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll ), Inge ( Splendor in the Grass ), Budd Schulberg ( On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd ), John Steinbeck ( Viva Zapata!

Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film Streetcar Named Desire was Kazan's first choice.

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 film ) | A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )

Alex North ’ s score for the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire was released on a 10-inch LP by Capitol Records and sold so well that the label later re-released it on one side of a 12-inch LP with some of Max Steiner's film music on the reverse.

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She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire.

Similarly, the film's jazz soundtrack ( played by Shorty Rogers and His Giants with Shelly Manne ) was a landmark in film history ; it followed on somewhat from the score provided by Alex North for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ).

She has a particular affection for the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire, revealed first in " The Fusilli Jerry " the episode where Elaine first begins to see David Puddy and an utter dislike for The English Patient.

* 12 Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress ( played " Stella Kowalski " in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire ).