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A Streetcar Named Desire [1951 film]

by Elia Kazan (Director), Charles K. Feldman (Producer), Harry Strading, Sr. (Director of Photography), Tennessee Williams (Original play)

Other authors: Marlon Brando (Actor), Kim Hunter (Actor), Vivien Leigh (Actor), Karl Malden (Actor)

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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.… (more)
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Kazan, EliaDirectorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Feldman, Charles K.Producermain authorall editionsconfirmed
Strading, Harry, Sr.Director of Photographymain authorall editionsconfirmed
Williams, TennesseeOriginal playmain authorall editionsconfirmed
Brando, MarlonActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hunter, KimActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Leigh, VivienActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Malden, KarlActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.

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