Elia Kazan directed both this 1947 play, that made Marlon Brando a star, & the 1951 film
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A Streetcar Named Desire - Wikipedia  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams .... Williams believed that by casting Brando, who was young for the part as it ... Ralph Meeker also took on the part of Stanley both in the Broadway and .... In 1951, a film adaptation of the play, directed by Elia Kazan, with Malden,...
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Elia Kazan - Wikipedia  Elia Kazan was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, .... In 1947, he directed the courtroom drama Boomerang!, and in 1950 he directed ... In 1951, after introducing and directing Marlon Brando and Karl ... on to cast both in the film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire,...
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Marlon Brando - Wikipedia  Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924  July 1, 2004) was an American actor, film director and ... Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in ... the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie ..... The film was directed by Elia Kazan and co-starred Anthony Quinn.
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) - Wikipedia  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American drama film, with elements of film noir, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name. ... True to the play, the film is both lyrical and gritty, with complex and ... Tennessee Williams collaborated with Oscar Saul and Elia Kazan on the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway - Dec 03, 1947 ...  On this day in 1947, Marlon Brando's famous cry of STELLA! ... Streetcar, produced by Irene Mayer Selznick and directed by Elia Kazan, shocked mid-century...
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Program Notes: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - Austin Film Society  On her own she changed the title to A Streetcar Named Desire and began ... Marlon Brando later said that Kazan was the only director who ever really stimulated me. ... For the first time ever in American theater history, the production would be ... Gore Vidal said, Stanley Kowalski changed the concept of sex in America.
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Othello (1951 stage production) - Wellesnet | Orson Welles Web ...  In 1951, Laurence Olivier offered Welles the chance to direct a play for him at the St. ... for his Othello, but in England, particularly London, this was near impossible, and ... while the cast performed on stage, Welles watched and directed from the seats, ... Peter Finch played Iago, and Gudrun Ure, who would re-dub Suzanne...
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On the Waterfront - (1954) - TheMoviesCentral.com  Sam Spiegel sent the script to Marlon Brando and it came back with a refusal. ... Fiore told him that having a gun pulled on him by his brother would hit a bullshit ... Interestingly, for the film's classic scene between Rod Steiger and Brando in the...
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Othello (1951 film) - Wikipedia  Othello AKA The tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice is a 1951 drama film directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also adapted the Shakespearean play and played the title role. Recipient of the Palme d'Or at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival, the film was .... ragged take on Othello may take liberties with the source material, but Orson...
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1952) - Overview - TCM.com  Overview of A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952, directed by Elia Kazan, with Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, at Turner Classic Movies.
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East of Eden (film) - Wikipedia  East of Eden is a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the second half of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies ... Some scenes were filmed in the Salinas Valley. Of the three films in which James Dean played the...
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Stage Door (1937) - Articles - TCM.com  In Stage Door , the name of the play Hepburn appears in is "Enchanted April ... highly reminiscent of that other acclaimed comedy-drama of life in the theater, All About Eve (1950). ... Hepburn said later she cried with laughter when she saw the movie. .... When Katharine Hepburn was getting set to play the title role in Mary of...
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Guys and Dolls (1955) - IMDb  Comedy ... With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine. ... Jo Swerling (based upon the play: "Guys and Dolls" book by), Abe Burrows (based ... Fox Moves Ahead with 'Guys and Dolls' Film, Michael Grandage Directing ..... All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to...
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Elia Kazan - Wikipedia  Elia Kazan was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". ... In 1954, he directed On the Waterfront, a film about union corruption on the New York harbor waterfront. A Streetcar Named...
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MAOW Reviews (mid Dec to now) - Part A - hi, my name is zac efron ...  In this case, the time is 1937, which Linklater evokes with swing music and ... of Macbeth and an abortive launch of Marc Blitzstein's rabble-rousing opera, The Cradle ... We learn, courtesy of Welles' partner John Houseman (Mike Leigh regular ... in the Mercury Theater's legendary modern-dress production of Julius Caesar.
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Viva Zapata! - Wikipedia  Viva Zapata! is a 1952 biographical film starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan. ... He is guided by his desire to return the peasants their recently robbed lands, while forsaking his personal interest, even ... The film tends to romanticize Zapata and in doing so may distort the true nature of the Mexican Revolution.
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) - Wikiquote  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film based on a play by Tennessee Williams. .... Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in ... Vivien Leigh - Blanche DuBois; Marlon Brando - Stanley Kowalski...
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Viva Zapata!Motion Pictures and Mexican Revolution | Steinbeck ...  Sep 25, 2014 ... Working with his friend Elia Kazanthe director of On the Waterfront, also starring Marlon Brando, and the 1955 motion picture adaptation of East of EdenSteinbeck ... But Viva Zapata! is also the story of a rebel with a divided ... that [a]mong modern American authors, John Steinbeck has had the greatest...
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A Guide to Understanding Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront (1954 ...  Oct 22, 2012 ... The performance of Terry Malloy in director Elia Kazan's On The Waterfront won Marlon Brando his first Oscar and boasted success for the...
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Elia Kazan - Wikipedia  Elia Kazan was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New ... Kazan acted in a few films, including City for Conquest (1940). ... A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), an adaptation of the stage play which he had ..... for Eva Marie Saint, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role.
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How Marlon Brando nearly turned down Streetcar - Telegraph  Sep 13, 2014 ... Marlon Brando's star turn in Tennessee Williams's play almost never happened. ... Marlon Brando reprised his role for the film version of 'A Streetcar ... Kazan called Williams, gave Brando $20, and sent him up to Provincetown to read. ... He seemed to have already created a dimensional character, of the...