A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Screens in St. Louis for the Tennessee Williams Birthday Bash March 26th

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

The 1951 film A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE ‎starring Vivien Leigh‎ and ‎Marlon Brando will screen Sunday March 26th  at Brown Hall Auditorium on the campus of Washington University. This is to celebrate playwright Tennessee Williams 106th Birthday. The screening is at 7pm and is followed by a reception that will be attended by Tennessee Williams’ niece Francesca Williams. This event is FREE and open to the public.

Ahead of its time in how it showed raw and naked sexual and emotional passions on the screen, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE made 27 year-old Marlon Brando, who also played the role of Stanley Kowalski on Broadway, an overnight sensation and one of the all-time greats of the silver screen. Blanche Dubois (Viven Leigh) is a Southern belle, one who had every man in the palm of her man. Blanche moves in with her sister Stella (Kim Hunter) and her husband, Stanley (Brando) in a small, grotty New Orleans apartment. Blanche’s family owned an estate but lost it and now Blanche has gone to live with her sister, much to the animal-like Stanley’s dismay. Stanley hates her, hates her with a passion. Once she arrives, hell breaks loose between Stanley and Stella, who is pregnant. Stanley gets his contacts and finds out some unsavory stuff about Stella. The ending is a real punch in the gut, even when you see it coming. Now you can see A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE again when it plays Sunday March 24th at Brown Hall Auditorium on the campus of Washington University.  It’s FREE!  Brown Hall is located in the southeast corner of Washington University’s Danforth Campus