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 DoctorAnn Dere
The MatronEdna Thomas
The Mexican Woman
Mickey Kuhn
A SailorMel Archer
Foreman (uncredited)Walter Bacon
Club Patron (uncredited)
Marietta Canty
Giggling Woman with Eunice (uncredited)
John George
Passerby (uncredited)John Gonetos
Vendor (uncredited)Chester Jones
Street Vendor (uncredited)
Lyle Latell
Policeman (uncredited)Joe Brooks
Worker (uncredited)Mike Morelli
Bowling Alley Patron (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Waiter (uncredited)Maxie Thrower
Passerby (uncredited)
Charles Wagenheim
Passerby (uncredited)John B. Williams
Vendor (uncredited)Buck Woods
Vendor (uncredited)
Released
en
$1,800,000.00
$8,000,000.00
- #loss of sense of reality
- #rape
- #sibling relationship
- #southern usa
- #brother-in-law
- #violent husband
- #new orleans, louisiana
- #family relationships
- #black and white
- #light bulb
- #expectant father
- #sister sister relationship
Reviews
"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. T
_**Interesting themes, but an overrated melodrama**_ Released in late 1951 and directed by Elia Kazan based on Tennessee Williams play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" stars Vivien Leigh as the neurotic Blanche DuBois, who moves in with her sister (Kim Hunter) in the French Quarter of New Orleans where she is antagonized by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley (Marlon Brando). As she seeks a relation