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A Streetcar Named Desire
1947 play by Tennessee Williams
For other uses, see A Streetcar Named Desire (disambiguation).
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947.[1] The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley.
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the 20th century[2] and Williams's most popular work. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably a critically acclaimed film that was released in 1951.[3]
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[edit]Blanche is mentioned in the play as arriving at Stella's apartment by riding in a streetcar on the Desire streetcar line. Tennessee Williams was living in an apartment on Toulouse Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter when he wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. The old Desire streetcar line ran only a half-block away.
In the 1951 film Blanche is shown riding the car. In the interim between writing the play and shooting the
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Brando: The Biography
Peter Manso was an American journalist and author, born in Manhattan on December 22, 1040. He was a graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio (1961) and earned his master's from John Hopkins University (1962). He then taught at Rutgers University for a year. He decided to focus on writing and earned his doctorate in American Literature from the University of California, Berkeley (1968). He wrote numerous articles for magazines. His work appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Vanity Fair, the Sunday Times of London, Paris Match, and many other publications. His interviews with Edward I. Koch and Arnold Schwarzenegger had a stinging effect on their political lives. But he is best known for two biographies, Brando: The Biography (1994) and Mailer: His Life and Times (1985). His other books included Ptown: Art. Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape (2003) and Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowan (2011). Peter Manso died on April 7, 2021 at his home in Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. He was 80.