A Streetcar Named Desire

Resource Information

The work A Streetcar Named Desire represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A Streetcar Named Desire

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan

Creator

• Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Ballard, Lucinda
• Bond, Rudy, 1912-1982
• Brando, Marlon
• Day, Richard, 1894-1972
• Dennis, Nick
• Dere, Ann, 1868-1954
• Feldman, Charles K., 1904-1968
• Garrick, Richard T., 1878-1962
• Heindorf, Ray, 1908-1980
• Hillias, Peg
• Hopkins, George James
• Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002
• Kazan, Elia
• King, Wright
• Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967
• Malden, Karl
• Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
• North, Alex
• Saul, Oscar
• Stradling, Harry, 1901-1970
• Thomas, Edna, 1885-1974
• Weisbart, David
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Composer

• North, Alex

Subject

• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• French subtitles
• La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) -- Films
• Louisiana -- New Orleans
• Lust
• Lust -- Drama
• Luxure -- Films
• Man-woman relationships
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• New Orleans (La.) -- Drama
• Relaciones hombre-mujer -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Teatro
• Relations entre hommes et femmes -- Films
• Sisters
• Sisters -- Drama
• Spanish subtitles
• Sœurs -- Films
• Triangle (Relations humaines) -- Films
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Fiction films
• Films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Drama

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

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 Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies

Member of

• Tennessee Williams film collection

Awards note

Academy Awards, 1951: Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Art director, Richard Day ; film editor, David Weisbart ; set decorator, George James Hopkins ; wardrobe by Lucinda Ballard ; original music by Alex North ; musical direction by Ray Heindorf

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements

Language note

English (container erroneously states that dialog is in English or French); with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles

LC call number

• PN1997
• PS3545.I5365

LC item number

• .S78 2006
• S873 2006

PerformerNote

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas

Runtime

122

Series statement

Tennessee Williams film collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action