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

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!

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.

* September 18 – Tennessee Williams's adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire premieres, becoming a critical and box-office smash.

* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

* Tennessee Williams's one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton ( 1946 ) ( as the medicine Flora drinks to relax herself.

Other films included Walk on the Wild Side ( 1962 ) with Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda and Capucine ; the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke ( 1961 ) with Geraldine Page, and Darling ( 1965 ) with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde.

In February 2005, the Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling stating that Williams's heirs — son, Hank Williams Jr., and daughter, Jett Williams — have the sole rights to sell his recordings made for a Nashville radio station in 1951.

He continued to have steady work in films such as Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the 1987 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s she also had success in the works of several contemporary writers, including the British production of Tennessee Williams's Camino Real.

She continued her stage career in the Greek production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1960 ), under the direction of Karolos Koun.

In 2004, she appeared as Violet Venable in Sheffield Theatres ' production of Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly Last Summer, which transferred to the Albery Theatre.

She received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her appearance in the episode, " A Cardinal Act of Mercy " ( 1963 ), of the television series, Ben Casey ( 1961 – 1966 ), and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for her appearance in Tennessee Williams's Southern melodrama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1985 ), this time as Big Mama.

He has also directed productions of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Stephen Sondheim's Company ( which had the first ever African American " Bobby "), Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and his farewell duo of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

With Tennessee Williams's encouragement, Inge wrote his first play, Farther Off from Heaven ( 1947 ), which was staged at Margo Jones ' Theatre ' 47 in Dallas, Texas.

The phrase also appears in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire.

In his review for The New York Times, critic Clive Barnes said, " there are people who think that Camino Real was Tennessee Williams's best play, and I believe that they are right.

The plot looks forward to the stories of Eudora Welty and Flannery O ' Connor and the plays of William Inge, while Edna Pontellier's emotional crises and her eventual tragic fall look ahead to the complex female characters of Tennessee Williams's plays.

The following year she returned to Broadway in Closer, for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and in 2005, she appeared again with the Roundabout, this time as Blanche DuBois in their revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite John C. Reilly as Stanley Kowalski.

They were followed by Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest in 1948, and Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie directed by Gielgud, starring Helen Hayes ; and The Heiress, an adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square, directed by Gielgud and starring Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft, who was succeeded by Wendy Hiller ( 1949 – 50 ).

In addition to movies, in the 1950s the theater was the site of many live, summer theater productions such as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and George Abbott and John Cecil Holm's Three Men on a Horse.

Since then she has played Antigone in a national UK tour, the Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic and with Gillian Anderson in A Doll ’ s House at Donmar Warehouse.

He recently composed incidental music for The River City Repertory Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams's " The Glass Menagerie ," starring Tony winner Donna McKechnie.

Among Mendes ' productions were John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Stephen Sondheim's Company, Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and his farewell duo of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In July 1958, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda returned to the country after a long absence in the United States ( where he had obtained his medical degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 ), the United Kingdom ( where he practised medicine ), and Ghana.

Thunder Road ( 1958 ) was loosely based on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee somewhere between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.

On May 8, 1958, Ferrer guest starred on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Thunder Road is the title of a 1958 drama – crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s.

Corlew, Robert E., A History of Dickson County, Tennessee, Nashville, 1958 ( reprinted 1980 ), Tennessee Historical Commission

Born in Grand Junction, Tennessee on October 18, 1958, Hearns was the youngest of three children in his mother's first marriage.

On 6 March 1958, he guest starred on NBC's country variety series, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

The Country Music Association ( CMA ) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Based originally on the character of the same name played by actor Burl Ives in the 1958 screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams ' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Big Daddy was first given life by Crabtree in late 1974, initially still as a heel.

* The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford ( NBC, December 4, 1958 )

Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes ( 1958 )

It was elevated to university status in 1951, renamed the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial University, and got full-fledged land-grant university status by the Tennessee State Board of Education in 1958.

On August 1, 1958, a seven acre ( 28, 000 m² ) tract of land was purchased in Cleveland, Tennessee, and the church undertook a project similar to the Fields of the Wood, which is owned by the Church of God of Prophecy.

On February 6, 1958, she appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

The group moved from Mercury to RCA Records in 1958 and eventually broke up in 1964, but they all moved to the U. S. and reunited in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1977.

In 1958, after passage of enabling legislation and a referendum, Schenley's Ralph Dupps reconstructed the Cascade Hollow distillery and the original recipe, and George Dickel Tennessee Whisky was first bottled in 1964.

The session took place on June 10, 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ellington was a heavy favorite to succeed Clement in the 1958 Democratic primary, when Clement was unable to succeed himself due to term limit legislation which had been amended into the Tennessee state constitution.

In 1958, Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement asked Hooker and prominent Nashville attorney Jack Norman Sr. to become involved in the state's investigation of Raulston Schoolfield, an allegedly corrupt Chattanooga state judge.

A Democrat, he was first elected to the Tennessee Senate in 1958, serving until January 1961.

Robert Ashton " Fats " Everett ( February 24, 1915 – January 26, 1969 ) was a Democratic Congressman from Tennessee from February 1, 1958 until his death.

The Mar-Keys, formed in 1958, were an American studio session band for the Stax label from Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1960s.