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This is an actor’s story. It contains juicy parts and this cast embraces them with passion. Marlon Brando’s raw and honest performance came from another planet in 1951. Vivien Leigh’s performance is grand and just shy of over-the-top, but it works perfectly for her character. Each character has their own agenda and their all moving in opposite directions until they finally collide and explode.

Blanche DuBois (Leigh, GONE WITH THE WIND) is an aging Southern belle who has secrets. She’s losing her grip on reality, but puts up an illusion of a prim and proper lady. She goes to stay with her sister Stella (Kim Hunter, PLANET OF THE APES) in New Orleans taking the streetcar named Desire to Elysian Fields. The sexual electricity in the air shocks her. She’s shocked even more so when she meets Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski (Brando, THE GODFATHER). He is a brutish unsophisticated bully who oozes male sexuality. Stanley doesn’t like Blanche from the start, but his shy, momma’s boy friend Mitch (Karl Malden, ON THE WATERFRONT) takes a liking to the genteel woman instantly.
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