Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois
Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski
Kim Hunter
Stella Kowalski
Karl Malden
Harold Mitchell
Rudy Bond
Steve
Nick Dennis
Pablo Gonzales
Peg Hillias
Eunice
Wright King
A Collector
Richard Garrick
A Doctor
Ann Dere
The Matron
Edna Thomas
The Mexican Woman
Mickey Kuhn
A Sailor
Mel Archer
Foreman (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
Club Patron (uncredited)
Dahn Ben Amotz
Minor Role (uncredited)
Marietta Canty
Giggling Woman with Eunice (uncredited)
John George
Passerby (uncredited)
John Gonetos
Vendor (uncredited)
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"I've always relied on the kindness of strangers." - Blanche Du Bois
Blanche Dubois has had some problems back home. She rides into New Orleans on a streetcar to stay with her sister Stella and her brutish husband Stanley. It's an immediate clash of cultures as Blanche and Stanley butt heads.
Though their ideology is different there is also an undeniable sexual tension around them as well. That tension continues to build to tragic effects.
To call this film one of the all time greats almost seems like an understatement. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tennessee Williams, it ushered in a more mature dramatics that film needed. It also was important as a new kind of acting style. Marlon Brando had made the film "The Men" the previous year, but it was this movie that projected him to the forefront of his generation of actors. Vivian Leigh matches him as Blanche. She is strong, but incredibly fragile. Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter all won acting Oscars.
Ironically the most magnetic performance of Brando was only nominated. This is probably in my Top Ten films of all time._italic text_
Cinema_Snobb11 May, 2024
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