A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
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- PG
- 2h 2min
- Drama
- 19 Sep 1951 (USA)
- Movie
- Won 4 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 15 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
Vivien Leigh | ... |
Blanche DuBois
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Marlon Brando | ... |
Stanley Kowalski
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Kim Hunter | ... |
Stella Kowalski
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Karl Malden | ... |
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
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Rudy Bond | ... |
Steve
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Nick Dennis | ... |
Pablo
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Peg Hillias | ... |
Eunice
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Wright King | ... |
A Collector
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Richard Garrick | ... |
A Doctor
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Ann Dere | ... |
The Matron
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Edna Thomas | ... |
The Mexican Woman
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Mickey Kuhn | ... |
A Sailor
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Mel Archer | ... |
Foreman (uncredited)
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Walter Bacon | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Dahn Ben Amotz | ... |
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Joe Brooks | ... |
Worker (uncredited)
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Marietta Canty | ... |
Giggling Woman with Eunice (uncredited)
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John George | ... |
Passerby (uncredited)
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John Gonetos | ... |
Vendor (uncredited)
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Chester Jones | ... |
Street Vendor (uncredited)
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Lyle Latell | ... |
Policeman (uncredited)
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Mike Morelli | ... |
Bowling Alley Patron (uncredited)
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William H. O'Brien | ... |
Waiter (uncredited)
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Maxie Thrower | ... |
Passerby (uncredited)
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Charles Wagenheim | ... |
Passerby (uncredited)
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John B. Williams | ... |
Vendor (uncredited)
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Buck Woods | ... |
Vendor (uncredited)
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Directed by
Elia Kazan |
Written by
Tennessee Williams | ... | (screen play) |
Oscar Saul | ... | (adaptation by) |
Tennessee Williams | ... | (original play "A Streetcar Named Desire") |
Produced by
Charles K. Feldman | ... | producer |
Music by
Alex North |
Cinematography by
Harry Stradling Sr. | ... | director of photography (as Harry Stradling) |
Editing by
David Weisbart | ... | film editor |
Art Direction by
Richard Day | ||
Bertram Tuttle | ... | supervising art director (uncredited) |
Set Decoration by
George James Hopkins |
Makeup Department
Gordon Bau | ... | makeup artist |
Ray Forman | ... | hair stylist (uncredited) |
Otis Malcolm | ... | makeup artist (uncredited) |
Pat O'Grady | ... | body makeup artist (uncredited) |
Hazel Rogers | ... | hair stylist (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Don Alvarado | ... | first assistant director (uncredited) |
John Prettyman | ... | second assistant director (uncredited) |
Art Department
Donald P. Desmond | ... | set construction (uncredited) |
Bill Gold | ... | poster designer (uncredited) |
John More | ... | props (uncredited) |
George Sweeney | ... | assistant props (uncredited) |
Sound Department
C.A. Riggs | ... | sound |
Nathan Levinson | ... | sound (uncredited) |
Francis E. Stahl | ... | boom operator (uncredited) |
Frank Weixel | ... | cableman (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Jack Albin | ... | still photographer (uncredited) |
Paul Butner | ... | best boy (uncredited) |
Robert Campbell | ... | gaffer (uncredited) |
Stuart Higgs | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
E. Truman Joiner | ... | grip (uncredited) |
Fred Mandl | ... | second camera (uncredited) |
Wally Meinardus | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Harry Whittingham | ... | best boy (uncredited) |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lucinda Ballard | ... | wardrobe |
Lillian House | ... | wardrobe (uncredited) |
Joan Joseff | ... | costume jeweller (uncredited) |
Robert O'Dell | ... | wardrobe (uncredited) |
Marguerite Royce | ... | wardrobe (uncredited) |
Music Department
Ray Heindorf | ... | musical director |
Maurice De Packh | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Hal Findlay | ... | music synchronization (uncredited) |
Phil Score | ... | music editor (uncredited) |
Script and Continuity Department
Polly Craus | ... | script clerk (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Irene Mayer Selznick | ... | presenter: on the stage |
Production Companies
- Charles K. Feldman Group (An Elia Kazan Production)
- Warner Bros.
Distributors
- Warner Bros. (1951) (United States) (theatrical) (as Warner Bros. Pictures) (presents)
- Warner Brothers Pictures (1951) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (as Warner Brothers Pictures, Ltd.)
- Motion Picture Export Association (MPEA) (1952) (Austria) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. Film (1952) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1952) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. (1952) (France) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. (1952) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. (1952) (Norway) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. (1954) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Exclusivas Floralva Distribución S.A. (1956) (Spain) (theatrical)
- Twentieth Century Fox (1958) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- United Artists (1970) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- CBS (1972) (United States) (tv) (CBS Thursday Night Movie)
- CBS (1972) (United States) (tv) (network premiere)
- United Artists (A-Asia) (1973) (Australia) (theatrical)
- United Artists (1974) (Sweden) (theatrical) (re-release)
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- CBS/Fox (1983) (United States) (video) (LaserDisc)
- Sundowner Home Video (1984) (Australia) (video)
- Guild Home Video (1985) (United Kingdom) (VHS) (for Lorimar)
- Warner Home Video (1985) (United States) (VHS) (colorized version)
- 20th Century Fox Television (United States) (tv) (cable)
- Canal+ (1986) (France) (tv) (dubbed version)
- Home Box Office (HBO) (United States) (tv)
- Proserpine (1987) (France) (VHS) (dubbed version)
- Warner Home Video (1987) (United States) (VHS)
- Antenne 2 (A2) (1988) (France) (tv) (dubbed version)
- Video Collection International (1989) (United Kingdom) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (1992) (United Kingdom) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (1992) (United States) (VHS) (original director's version)
- Warner Home Vidéo (1992) (France) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (1993) (Canada) (VHS)
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- Argentina Video Home (2000) (Argentina) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2000) (United Kingdom) (VHS)
- Warner Home Vídeo (2000) (Brazil) (DVD)
- Argentina Video Home (2002) (Argentina) (VHS)
- Argentina Video Home (2006) (Argentina) (DVD) (2-disc edition)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (United States) (DVD) (special edition)
- International DVD Group (2008) (Argentina) (DVD) (Colección Joyas del Cine)
- Argentina Video Home (2010) (Argentina) (DVD) (as part of the pack 'Triple Clasicos del Cine')
- Warner Home Video (2012) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Park Circus (2014) (France) (theatrical) (re-release)
- HBO Max (2020) (United States) (video) (VOD)
- Les Artistes Associés (1974) (France) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) (this picture made under the jurisdiction of)
- RCA (sound system)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Blanche DuBois, a high school English teacher with an aristocratic background from Auriol, Mississippi, decides to move to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans after creditors take over the family property, Belle Reve. Blanche has also decided to take a break from teaching as she states the situation has frayed her nerves. Knowing nothing about Stanley or the Kowalskis' lives, Blanche is shocked to find that they live in a cramped and run down ground floor apartment - which she proceeds to beautify by putting shades over the open light bulbs to soften the lighting - and that Stanley is not the gentleman that she is used to in men. As such, Blanche and Stanley have an antagonistic relationship from the start. Blanche finds that Stanley's hyper-masculinity, which often displays itself in physical outbursts, is common, coarse and vulgar, being common which in turn is what attracted Stella to him. Beyond finding Blanche's delicate hoidy-toidy act as putting on airs, Stanley, a plant worker, believes she may really have sold Belle Reve and is withholding Stella's fair share of the proceeds from them. What further affects the relationship between the three is that Stella is in the early stage of pregnancy with her and Stanley's first child. Soon after her arrival at the Kowalskis, Blanche starts to date Mitch, one of Stanley's friends and coworkers who is a little softer around the edges than most of Stanley's friends. Mitch does not hide the fact that he is looking in general to get married because of a personal issue, he wanting Blanche ultimately to be his wife. Mitch is somewhat unaware that Blanche has somewhat controlled their courtship to put herself in the best possible light, both figuratively and literally. But in Stanley's quest to find out the truth about Belle Reve and Blanche's life in Auriol, the interrelationships between Stanley, Blanche, Stella and Mitch may be irrevocably affected, with any revelation about that life which may further destroy what's left of Blanche's already damaged mental state. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | ...When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed. See more » |
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Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Box Office
Budget | $1,800,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
Trivia | As the film progresses, the set of the Kowalski apartment actually gets smaller to heighten the suggestion of Blanche's increasing claustrophobia. See more » |
Goofs | When Stanley comes back from taking Stella to the hospital, he is looking for a bottle opener. He finds it on the mantelpiece, shakes up a bottle of beer, and opens it. The beer foams up and spills on his trousers. But if you watch at the moment when he swings himself up to sit on the table - before he opens the bottle - you can see that the front of his trousers are already wet. Apparently they re-shot it without him changing into dry trousers. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into An American Named Kazan (2018). See more » |
Soundtracks | It's Only a Paper Moon See more » |
Quotes |
Stanley:
Hey, STELLA! See more » |