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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)


the bottom of the screen, as though she were turned upside down. In the movie, Blanche actually rode the streetcar, only mentioned in the play. By the time the film was in production however, the Desire streetcar line had been converted into a bus service, and the production team had to gain permission from the authorities to hire out a streetcar with the "Desire" name on it. The music score, by Alex North, was written in short sets of music that reflected the psychological dynamics of the characters
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A Streetcar Named Marge


is based on "A Streetcar Named Desire", the title of the musical alludes to the theatrical revue "Oh! Calcutta!". Besides Blanche and Stanley, characters from "A Streetcar Named Desire" who appear in "Oh, Streetcar!" include Stella (played by Helen Lovejoy), the Young Collector (played by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon), Mitch (played by Lionel Hutz), the Doctor (played by Chief Wiggum), Steve (played by Jasper Beardley, although Apu originally said he was playing Steve
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)


a streetcar named "Desire" to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley Kowalski, live in a dilapidated tenement apartment. Blanche claims to be on leave from her teaching job due to her nerves and wants to stay with Stella and Stanley. Blanche's demure, refined manner is a stark contrast to Stanley's crude, brutish behavior, making them mutually wary and antagonistic. Stella welcomes having her sister, but Blanche often patronizes and criticizes her. It is revealed that Blanche and Stella
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A Streetcar Named Desire


-winning Woody Allen film "Blue Jasmine" had much in common with "Streetcar" and is most likely a loose adaptation. It shares a very similar plot and characters, although it has been suitably updated for modern film audiences. In 2015, Gillian Anderson directed and starred in a short film prequel to "A Streetcar Named Desire", titled "The Departure". The short film was written by the novelist Andrew O'Hagan and is part of Young Vic's short film series, which was produced in collaboration with "
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Marlon Brando


"The Godfather: The Game", once again as Don Vito Corleone. However, Brando recorded only one line due to his health, and an impersonator was hired to finish his lines. Some lines from his character were directly lifted from the film. Karl Malden—a fellow actor in "A Streetcar Named Desire", "On the Waterfront", and "One-Eyed Jacks" (the only film directed by Brando)—talks in a documentary accompanying the DVD of "A Streetcar Named Desire" about a phone call
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A Streetcar Named Marge


"A Streetcar Named Marge" is the second episode of "The Simpsons"' fourth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 1, 1992. In the episode, Marge wins the role of Blanche DuBois in a community theatre musical version of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". Homer offers little support for his wife's acting pursuits, and Marge begins to see parallels between him and Stanley Kowalski, the play's boorish lead male character. The episode contains a subplot
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Due South characters


". He is a Polish-American detective with the Chicago Police Department, serving with the 27th Precinct. The character is portrayed by actor Callum Keith Rennie. Kowalski's father was a fan of Marlon Brando; who played Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire"; hence his name. Kowalski however prefers to go by his middle name, Ray. To add to the "Streetcar" connections, Kowalski's ex-wife - the Assistant States Attorney - is called Stella. They still
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A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)


Anthony Dean Griffey sang touchingly and surely in the tenor role of Mitch. Other reviews have criticized the lengthy libretto (reportedly the Williams estate required a close following of the play), music that does not advance the characters or action, and does not much suggest New Orleans of the 1940s. A shorter version was produced in San Francisco in 2007. Subsequent U.S. performances of "A Streetcar Named Desire" were given in New Orleans (1999–2000); San Diego (2000); Washington, Los Angeles, and Austin,
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Tennessee Williams


discussions and new plays inspired by his work. In 2018 the festival produced "A Streetcar Named Desire". The U.S. Postal Service honored Williams on a stamp in 1994 as part of its literary arts series. Williams is honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Characters in his plays are often seen as representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" was understood to be modeled on his sister Rose. Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named
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A Streetcar Named Desire


names: the Desire line itself crossed Elysian Fields Avenue on its way to Canal Street. There, one could transfer to the Cemeteries line, which ran along Canal, blocks away from Elysian Fields. The character of Blanche is thought to be based on Williams' sister, Rose Williams, who struggled with mental health issues and became incapacitated after a lobotomy. Theatre critic and former actress Blanche Marvin, a friend of Williams, says the playwright used her name for the character Blanche DuBois, named the character's sister Stella after
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A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)


introduce dissolution and lurid sex. Holland commented on the principal singers as follows: [A]s beautifully as Renée Fleming sings and as assiduously as she pursues the part, she leaves a hole in the opera that nothing around it can fill. Ms. Fleming does everything an opera singer can do, but I am not sure that Blanche is a character that opera can ever reach. As Stanley in a baritone part, Rodney Gilfry sings strongly and summons the necessary physical menace. Elizabeth Futral made Stella a satisfying operatic character (and)
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Victor Rebengiuc


The Pillars of Society" and the main character in "Rosmersholm"), Anton Chekhov (Michail Lvovich Astroff in "Uncle Vanya"), Oscar Wilde (Jack in "The Importance of Being Earnest"), Eugene O'Neill ("Long Day's Journey into Night", "A Moon for the Misbegotten") and Tennessee Williams (Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"). Before Penciulescu left for Sweden, he and Rebengiuc also worked on the Bulandra version of Rolf Hochhuth's "The Deputy"
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Stella Kowalski


Stella Kowalski (née DuBois) is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire". She is the younger sister of central character Blanche DuBois and wife of Stanley Kowalski. The play begins when Blanche comes to visit Stella and Stanley in New Orleans after having lost their family home, Belle Reve, and her job as a teacher in Laurel, Mississippi. We gather that Stella was a Southern belle who left her home town to find work after her family fell on hard times. In
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Major Dundee


"A Streetcar Named Desire") began making the movie into a complex character study about Dundee, making him a glory-hungry officer who would do anything to gain fame and recognition. He had the support of Heston, who had seen and enjoyed Peckinpah's previous film, "Ride the High Country", and was eager to work with the director. Actor R.G. Armstrong, who had a small part as a Reverend who tags along with the expedition, referred to the 156 minutes version of the film as ""
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Desire Street


, author of the 2005 book Desire Street, suggests that name is a misspelled homage to Désirée Clary a fiancé of Napoleon. The play "A Streetcar Named Desire", by Tennessee Williams, refers to the former streetcar line to this street. Desire Street is part of the title of a 1949 book titled "Frenchmen Desire Good Children" on New Orleans street names by John Churchill Chase. The Desire neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects although the housing development
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Pieter Toerien


– a main theatre with 320 seats and a 160-seater studio. Lining the walls of Toerien's theatres are photographs of the innumerable actors who have worked for him over the years, as well as posters of past productions such as "Sleuth," "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Equus", "Amadeus", "Agnes of God", "M. Butterfly", "Master Class", "Private Lives", "Stage Struck", "Quartermaine's Terms" and "Side by Side by Sondheim
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Leah Chase


play "A Streetcar Named Desire", which had an all-African-American cast, a mention of the restaurant Galatoire's (which was segregated during the play's post-war 1940s time period) was changed to a mention of Dooky Chase's Restaurant, which was integrated. Leah Chase was also the inspiration for the main character Tiana in the 2009 Disney animated film "The Princess and the Frog". In a 2017 episode of the Travel Channel's "Man v. Food", host Casey Webb visited Dooky
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Louis Cheung


Louis Cheung () is a Hong Kong Cantopop recording-artist, songwriter, and actor. He is an alumnus of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in acting. His first play was in 1997, and he has performed in a total of more than 20 stage plays, including the classic "A Streetcar Named Desire", as the main character, Stanley Kowalnski. In 1984, he started acting in front of the camera, including a well-known ad for Nestle instant milk's "The dairy
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A Streetcar Named Desire


A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams that opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatises the life of Blanche DuBois, a southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is Williams' most popular play, is considered among the finest plays of the 20th century, and is considered by many to be Williams' greatest work
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Theodore Bikel


as a character flaw, if not a downright act of desertion. In me there remains a small, still voice that asks whether I can ever fully acquit myself in my own mind.” In 1948, Michael Redgrave recommended Bikel to his friend Laurence Olivier as understudy for the parts of both Stanley Kowalski and Harold "Mitch" Mitchell in the West End premiere of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". Aside from being an understudy, Bikel's main role in the production was the relatively minor part of Pablo
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. The program received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Classical Music/Dance Program. The Desire Line ran from 1920 to 1948, at the height of streetcar use in New Orleans. The route ran down Royal, through the Quarter, to Desire Street in the Bywater district, and back up to Canal. Blanche's route in the play—"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!"—is allegorical, taking advantage of New Orleans's colorful street
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Laura Nezha


such as in Les Bonnes, A Streetcar Named Desire, What the Butler Saw, Hamlet and many more, making theatre her biggest artistic achievement. In 2016, Laura Nezha participated in the Albanian version of the dancing competition "Dance With Me" where after 15 weeks of different dance numbers, she won the First Prize. In 2017 she voice acted in the Albanian-language version of Moana, where she voiced the titular character. After 6 years, she returned to Kënga Magjike in 2017, with the song "Je
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Matt Bomer


and did a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Alley Theatre in Houston. I used to drive down at the end of the school day, do the show, do my homework during intermission and drive an hour back to Spring to go to school the next day. Bomer attended Carnegie Mellon University with fellow actor Joe Manganiello, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2001. Shortly after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Bomer moved to New York City, where he worked in theater and got
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Stanley Kowalski


Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire". Stanley lives in the working-class Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans with his wife, Stella (born as Dubois), and is employed as a factory parts salesman. He was an Army engineer in World War II, having served as a Master Sergeant. He has a vicious temper, and fights often with his wife, leading to instances of domestic violence. Near the beginning of the play, Stanley announces that Stella is
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Perley A. Thomas


operated on the route labeled "Desire" around the period of 1947 in which the story was set; hence the name: "A Streetcar Named Desire". Late in the 20th century, local employees carefully restored the cars, which operate on a heritage streetcar system. As he had noted and taken advantage of the transition from wooden to steel streetcars, he also recognized the transition from streetcars to buses which North America was undergoing in the 1930s. Thomas guided his company through a transition to bus manufacturing in 1936. The
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A Streetcar Named Desire


Marvin's former surname "Zohar" (which means "Star"), and took the play's line "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" from something she said to him. "A Streetcar Named Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about art and the artist's role in society. It is often included in paper editions of "A Streetcar Named Desire". A version of this essay first appeared in "The New York Times" on November 30, 1947, four days before the
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Peggy Rea


at the Algonquin Hotel (rather than Essex House, where Thompson was staying), and disappearing, on at least one occasion, on the eve of their New York opening to see "Born Yesterday" on Broadway without telling Thompson. The time had come for Peggy to make her mark as the character actress she was born to be. She quickly landed on her feet with a supporting role in the National Road Company production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" (as Eunice Hubbell, 1948–1949) starring Anthony
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Olivia de Havilland


on September 27, 1949, deHavilland took time off from making films to be with her infant. She turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", later explaining that becoming a mother was a "transforming experience" and that she could not relate to the character. In 1950, her family moved to New York City, where she began rehearsals for a major new stage production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"; it was her life-long ambition to play Juliet on the stage
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International Railway (New York–Ontario)


that used Main Street clearly made the street live up to its name. In addition to Shelton Square being the origination point for the Grant, Niagara, and Elmwood streetcar lines, there were also a number of routes that passed through Shelton Square to continue either south towards the docks and harbor, or north toward the northeast sections of the city. The Main streetcar shared trackage with the Parkside-Zoo (or Kenmore) streetcar, the Kensington street car, the West Utica and East Utica streetcars. During the busy weekday,
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Westbury Square


added that the public events "[h]eighten[ed] the sense of altered reality". Barry Moore, an architect who writes for "Cite" magazine, described Westbury Square as a "retail Brigadoon" and said that it "was as if Disneyland's Main Street USA had been translated into a real place where people could buy real stuff, and then go home to an apartment on the second floor." Its buildings were once used in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire". After the opening of The Galleria
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Blanche Marvin


Blanche Marvin , (born 1925, formerly Blanche Zohar), is a UK-based, American theatre critic, producer, playwright and former actor. Marvin was born in New York City, New York, in January 1925. She created the Empty Space Peter Brook award in 1991 and funds it personally. A friend of Tennessee Williams, she says the playwright used her name for the character Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", named the character's sister Stella after Marvin's former name "Zohar" (
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Passenger rail terminology


the term "streetcar" is used allegorically to refer to Blanche DuBois' promiscuity and inability to form permanent relationships, as in the sarcastic phrase: "Men (or women) are like streetcars. There'll be another one along any minute." There was actually a streetcar line in New Orleans named "Desire Street" and simply signed "Desire". It is mentioned in the book and an actual New Orleans streetcar with that signage is seen at the beginning of the Marlon Brando-Vivien Leigh film. A "
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David Serero (singer)


Grammys) and the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences (Emmys), for which he is both a voting member. Born in Paris, Serero studied jazz piano at the American School of Modern Music and at the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He graduated from both of these schools as a pianist and arranger. He lived in New York from 2001 to 2003, where he studied singing with teachers from Broadway and from the Metropolitan Opera and acting at the HB Studio where he played Stanley from "A Streetcar Named Desire
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Heritage streetcar


A. Thomas Car Works in 1922–23. These cars were operating on the system's Desire route made famous by Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". Some Perley Thomas cars were maintained in continuous service on the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar line until Hurricane Katrina caused major damage to the right-of-way in 2005. The historic streetcars suffered only minor damage and several have been transferred to serve on the recently rebuilt Canal Street line while the St. Charles line is being repaired. New Orleans' St. Charles streetcar line is
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Kate Edelman Johnson


the 1950s and 1960s. Johnson is involved in creating screenplays and TV series based on these characters, including the Emmy-nominated documentary "Saving Grace". Her late husband left her the rights to the film "A Streetcar Named Desire" which he co-produced. She keeps it in syndication and licenses film clips. 80% of her earnings from "Streetcar" goes to support the work of The Motion Picture and Television Fund. After her husband's death, she created the Deane F. Johnson Alzheimer's Research Foundation
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Tennessee Williams


bed, too tired to remove his clothes. Overworked, unhappy, and lacking further success with his writing, by his 24th birthday Williams had suffered a nervous breakdown and left his job. He drew from memories of this period, and a particular factory co-worker, to create the character Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire". By the mid-1930s his mother separated from his father due to his worsening alcoholism and abusive temper. They never divorced. In 1936 Williams enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis where he
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Desire" also is based on her. Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" generally was taken to represent Williams' mother Edwina. Characters such as Tom Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" and Sebastian in "Suddenly, Last Summer" were understood to represent Williams himself. In addition, he used a lobotomy as a motif in "Suddenly, Last Summer". The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1948 and to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in 1955.
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New Orleans


than a full percentage point. New Orleans has four active streetcar lines: The city's streetcars were featured in the Tennessee Williams play, "A Streetcar Named Desire". The streetcar line to Desire Street became a bus line in 1948. Public transportation is operated by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority ("RTA"). Many bus routes connect the city and suburban areas. The RTA lost 200+ buses in the flood. Some of the replacement buses operate on biodiesel. The Jefferson Parish Department of Transit Administration operates
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Elysium


for the best to come: A life of pleasure in Elyzium". The term and concept of Elysium has had influence in modern popular culture; references to Elysium can be found in literature, art, film, and music. Examples include the New Orleans neighborhood of Elysian Fields in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" as the déclassé purgatory where Blanche Dubois lives with Stanley and Stella Kowalski. New Orleans' Elysian Fields also provides the second-act setting of Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine" and the
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Laura Innes


theater. Her first stage credits were in Chicago at the renowned Goodman Theatre and Wisdom Bridge Theatre, where she played Stella in "A Streetcar Named Desire". John Malkovich played Mitch in this production. Other major stage credits include "Two Shakespearean Actors" with Eric Stoltz at Lincoln Center, "Our Town" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and "Three Sisters" at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. In 1986, Innes played the young daughter of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in the short-lived television
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James Gandolfini


worked as a bartender and club manager in Manhattan prior to his acting career. He was introduced to acting as a young man living in New York City, when he accompanied his friend Roger Bart to a Meisner technique acting class, where he studied for two years under Kathryn Gately at The Gately Poole Conservatory. Gandolfini performed in a 1992 Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" as Steve Hubbell for 168 performances, and in a 1995 Broadway production of "On the Waterfront" as Charley Malloy for 24. One of
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Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival


works. A scholars conference is held every year, and an academic journal, "The Tennessee Williams Annual Review", is associated with this conference. Since the first festival in 1986, events have included a guided walking tour to 722 Toulouse St. and other French Quarter residences where Williams once lived. Since 1996, the Festival has ended with the popular "Stella and Stanley Shouting Contest", a tribute to the third scene from "A Streetcar Named Desire". The contest is open to the public and held on the
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Darryl Read


medal for best actor at the Venice Film Festival. He also appeared on stage in two rock-based plays and a number of television programmes. He was a published author of poetry as well as a biographical novel. Read was killed in a motorcycle incident in Thailand in 2013. Read was born in Exeter, where his father Hedley Read was working on a stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Read struggled at school (he was later diagnosed dyslexic) and following his parents divorce, he lived with his
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Nina Bradlin


Nina Bradlin is a singer of smooth jazz, as well as a stage actor. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she currently lives and performs in Basel, Switzerland. Bradlin studied drama and comparative literature. and started her musical career in the early 2000s. In 2013, Nina Bradlin released her album, "Right Where You Are", recorded in Basel, Dublin, and Detroit. In 2015, she released her latest album "Stardust". Nina Bradlin appeared as Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire directed by
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Streetcars in New Orleans


last of the 25 [[J. G. Brill Company|Brill]] semi-convertible cars. It was on display at the French Market and later at the [[New Orleans Mint|Mint]], but exposure to the weather caused its deterioration. It is known in posed pictures as the Streetcar Named Desire, although there is no evidence that this class of streetcar ever ran on the Desire line. It is currently stored inoperative at Carrollton Station, but it could be restored for operation. 919 and 924: These two Perley Thomas
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List of Persona 4 characters


re-identified as when they seek out the reasons behind the murders and kidnappings. The protagonist is the main player-controlled character of "Persona 4". In the anime and most other materials, his name is , while the manga named him . However, in both the original game and the "Persona 4 Golden" enhanced remake, as well as in "", the player can choose any desired name for the character. He is a high school student who moves to the countryside of Inaba to live with
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Blanche DuBois


Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "A Streetcar Named Desire". The character was written for Tallulah Bankhead. Blanche DuBois arrives, penniless, in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family, she has been evicted from her family home, Belle Reve, after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella's inheritance. It is also later
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Bonnie Bluh


married in 1946 and four years later she and her husband Max Lowy moved to California, where Bluh immediately became involved with the Pasadena Playhouse acting in various productions, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", as well as trying her hand at directing. In the 1960s, living in New Jersey, she joined The New Dramatists in New York City and assisted many Broadway directors including Jules Irving at what was then the brand new Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center (1965–1973). Before their divorce, in 1969, Max and Bonnie
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Tennessee Williams


successes, including "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955), "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1959), and "The Night of the Iguana" (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama "A Streetcar Named Desire" is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" and
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Theatre and disability


"A childhood illness has left her crippled, one leg slightly shorter than the other, and held in a brace. This defect need not be more than suggested on the stage." This character description is vague enough to allow the director of this production to make their own decision as to how they want to portray Laura. There is enough ambiguity for the director to take the responsibility of showcasing disability as they see fit. Blanche DuBois, a character in "A Streetcar Named Desire", is unable to find inner
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A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)


A Streetcar Named Desire is an opera composed by André Previn with a libretto by Philip Littell in 1995. It is based on the play by Tennessee Williams. The opera received its premiere at the San Francisco Opera, September 19 – October 11, 1998. It was conducted by André Previn, and was directed by Colin Graham, with sets by Michael Yeargan. It quickly developed into one of the most widely played contemporary operas. The original production was released on CD and DVD. In a review of the premiere in "
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)


A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American drama film, adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name. It tells the story of a southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement. The Broadway production and cast was converted to film with several changes. Tennessee Williams collaborated with Oscar Saul and Elia Kazan on the screenplay. Kazan, who
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1984 film)


A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by John Erman and based on the 1947 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. The film stars Ann-Margret and Treat Williams and premiered on ABC on March 4, 1984. The film was nominated in 1984 for eleven 36th Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special, acting awards for Ann-Margret, D'Angelo and Quaid, plus the directing award for John Erman. It did not win those, but did win
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Truckline Cafe


. The play is noted for Brando's first major appearance on Broadway, during which he garnered attention for an unusually intense performance which presaged his later work on "A Streetcar Named Desire". "Truckline Cafe" is also notable for being the first collaboration between Brando and Kazan, who later made "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Viva Zapata", and "On the Waterfront" together. The play also remains notable for being the first time Brando and Malden worked together, prior to co-starring in "
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Troy Kotsur


Award, Valley Theater League of California for the leading actor in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". He was nominated for his leading role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by the Los Angeles Drama Circle Critics award, as well. He has been nominated by Los Angeles Ovation for "Featured Actor in a Musical" in "Oliver!" performed at the Deaf West Theater. While at Gallaudet University, he was awarded Best Actor for his role as Sepp Schmitz in "The Firebugs" and as Kurt
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Elizabeth Futral


baritone Christopher Maltman as Juan. The soprano's recordings include "Six Characters in Search of an Author", "L'étoile du nord", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Otello" (of Rossini), "Lucia di Lammermoor" (in English translation), "Of Mice and Men" (of Floyd), "Zelmira", "Orpheus & Euridice" (of Gordon), "Brief Encounter" (with Nathan Gunn), "Evensong: Of Love and Angels" (of Argento)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)


first of four consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. The film earned an estimated $4,250,000 at the US and Canadian box office in 1951, making it the fifth biggest hit of the year. In 1999, "A Streetcar Named Desire" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Blanche DuBois, a middle-aged high school teacher, travels by train from Auriol, Mississippi, to New Orleans. She takes
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)


. For his work on the film, North was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music Score, one of two nominations in that category that year. "A Streetcar Named Desire" grossed $4.2 million in the United States and Canada, with 15 million tickets sold against a production budget of $1.8 million. A reissue by 20th Century Fox in 1958 grossed a further $700,000. Upon release, the film drew very high praise. "The New York Times" critic Bosley Crowther stated that "inner torments are
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)


seldom projected with such sensitivity and clarity on the screen" and commending both Vivien Leigh's and Marlon Brando's performances. Film critic Roger Ebert has also expressed praise for the film, calling it a "great ensemble of the movies." The film currently has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 50 reviews. "A Streetcar Named Desire" won four awards at the 24th Academy Awards. The film set an Oscar record when it became the first film to win in three acting categories (a feat only
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A Streetcar Named Desire


Frankfurt in 1983. Music included "Visions fugitives" by Prokofiev and Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony. In the mid 2000s, another production was staged by Winthrop Corey, then Artistic Director of Mobile Ballet mobileballet.org In 2006, a production was staged by John Alleyne, then Artistic Director of Ballet BC. In 2012, Scottish Ballet collaborated with theatre and film director Nancy Meckler and international choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to create a new staging of "A Streetcar Named Desire". In 2018, the Erkel Theatre in Budapest revisited the production
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Patriot Games (film)


giving her the baby's latest test results. The film cuts to the credits before the gender of the baby is revealed. The actors who played Jack and Caroline Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October", Alec Baldwin and Gates McFadden, were unavailable. Baldwin had committed to perform in "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway. In 2011, Baldwin claimed the role was recast due to David Kirkpatrick forcing him to choose between performing in "A Streetcar Named Desire" or agreeing to an open-ended clause relating
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Carmelita Pope


's understudy in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire". She was reunited with childhood friend Marlon Brando, who was playing Stanley. After the announcement that a large portion of the original cast (including Kim Hunter) would be leaving "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1949, the producers put out a casting call for actors to replace them. Hunter, who had never missed a performance, told Pope that she would fake an illness and miss a day so that Pope could perform for the producers. Surprising
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Alex North


1965 ABC television miniseries "FDR". In 2016, the Library of Congress added North's 1951 recording of his score to "A Streetcar Named Desire" to its National Recording Registry. The American Film Institute ranked North's score for "A Streetcar Named Desire" #19 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list: North was nominated for fifteen Academy Awards throughout his career, one for Best Original Song, the rest in the Best Original Score category
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I.Q. (film)


1944, before the film's set period. The characters in the film also listen to Little Richard's "Tutti-Fruitti," which was released in November 1955, while Albert Einstein died in April of that year. While some viewers believe Robbins' character can be seen impersonating Don Vito Corleone, portrayed by Marlon Brando, from "The Godfather", which was released in 1972, he was actually impersonating Stanley Kowalski, also portrayed by Marlon Brando, from the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire". The
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Bruce Payne


I lost out in the end to Michael Keaton". In the same year Payne appeared as Doctor Burton in the dramatic film "Zwei Frauen" The film was nominated for Outstanding Feature Film at the German Film Awards. In 1990 Payne appeared in the music video for Neil Young's song "Over and Over", directed by Julien Temple, as a Stanley Kowalski (played by Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire", a film based on Tennessee Williams' play of the same name) esque character. In
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Kimo Williams


. He completed his military service in the Army Reserves by becoming the Bandmaster for the 85th Division Army Reserve Band, and retired from the Army Reserves as a Chief Warrant Officer in 1996. In 1997, Williams wrote the music for the Steppenwolf Theatre production of "A Streetcar Named Desire", leading to his partnership with Gary Sinise and, in 2003, the creation of the Lt. Dan Band (named for Sinise's character in film "Forrest Gump"). Also in 1997, he directed the Goodman Theatre's
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A Streetcar Named Desire


originally had written the role of Blanche, starred in a 1956 New York City Center Company production directed by Herbert Machiz. The first Broadway revival of the play was in 1973. It was produced by the Lincoln Center, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, and starred Rosemary Harris as Blanche, James Farentino as Stanley and Patricia Conolly as Stella. In a 1992 episode of "The Simpsons", "A Streetcar Named Marge", a musical version of the play, "Streetcar!", was featured. Ned Flanders and
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A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)


The New York Times", Bernard Holland observed: "A Streetcar Named Desire" is so operatic as a play that one wonders why more than 50 years have passed since its Broadway opening with no opera of note being made of it. ….The new setting of Tennessee Williams's play, with music by André Previn and a libretto by Philip Littell, answered a few questions and asked others... First of all, it sings very well. Mr. Previn has a fine ear for voices. He knows how to flatter and
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A Streetcar Named Desire


John C. Reilly as Stanley, Amy Ryan as Stella, and Natasha Richardson as Blanche. The production would mark Natasha Richardson's final appearance on Broadway prior to her death in 2009 following a skiing accident. The Sydney Theatre Company production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" premiered on September 5 and ran until October 17, 2009. This production, directed by Liv Ullmann, starred Cate Blanchett as Blanche, Joel Edgerton as Stanley, Robin McLeavy as Stella and Tim Richards as Mitch. From July 2009 until October 2009, Rachel
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995 film)


A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1995 made-for-television drama film directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Diane Lane that first aired on CBS Television. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, it follows a 1951 adaptation starring Marlon Brando and a 1984 television adaptation. The film was adapted from a 1992 Broadway revival of the play, also starring Baldwin and Lange. In 1996, Jessica Lange won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her performance in this film. It was
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National Theatre Live


by other companies have been included. "A Disappearing Number" by Complicite was broadcast live from the Theatre Royal, Plymouth on 14 October 2010. The Donmar Warehouse's production of "King Lear", starring Derek Jacobi was broadcast live from Covent Garden on 3 February 2011. In the summer of 2013, a broadcast of "Macbeth" starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston was broadcast live from the Manchester International Festival on 20 July 2013. "A Streetcar Named Desire" starring Gillian Anderson was broadcast live from the Young Vic
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes


"Sunset Boulevard", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Graduate" and "Jerry Maguire" each have two quotes. Rick Blaine ("Casablanca") is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale ("The Wizard of Oz"), Harry Callahan ("Dirty Harry" and "Sudden Impact"), James Bond ("Dr. No" and "Goldfinger"), Norma Desmond ("Sunset Boulevard"), Scarlett O'Hara ("Gone with the Wind
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Memory play


Streetcar Named Desire" and "Summer and Smoke" are also referred to as memory plays. The 1970s works of Harold Pinter, including "Landscape", "Silence", "A Kind of Alaska", "Betrayal" and "Old Times" have been described by Michael Billington and others as memory plays. Characters recite their own versions of past events and there is no clear indication of which, if any, is true. In Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa", "a memory play focusing on the
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A Streetcar Named Desire


as a woman.” The first all-black production of "Streetcar" was likely performed by the Summer Theatre Company at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, in August 1953 and directed by one of Williams's former classmates at Iowa, Thomas D. Pawley, as noted in the "Streetcar" edition of the "Plays in Production" series published by Cambridge University Press. The black and cross-gendered productions of "Streetcar" since the mid-1950s are too numerous to list here. Tallulah Bankhead, for whom Williams
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Characters in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective


take shape. When writing characters, he describes himself as writing a bit of himself into them, using this to accomplish his goal of making characters who fit the situation they are in but also feeling realistic. When designing the main character, Takumi desires to make said character identifiable to players, commenting that they can often act as the player, while the sidekick can drive the main character and by proxy the players to do something else. In particular, he likes to include sidekicks in his games to give the main character
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Apu Nahasapeemapetilon


whom he had interacted when he first moved to the area. He also loosely based it on Peter Sellers' character Hrundi V. Bakshi from the film "The Party", whom Azaria thinks has a similar personality to Apu. Apu's first name is an homage to the main character in "The Apu Trilogy" directed by Satyajit Ray. His surname is Nahasapeemapetilon, and it was first used in the episode "A Streetcar Named Marge". It is a morphophonological blend of the name "Pahasadee Napetilon", the full
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Guilt (emotion)


1690. "Guilt by association" is first recorded in 1941. "Guilty" is from O.E. "gyltig", from "gylt". Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden", Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire", William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat", and many other works of literature. In Sartre's "The
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Dan Gerson


We wanted to try and do a movie in which Mike is our main character and we've had a lot of challenges with this being a prequel. We have never written a prequel, and in fact when we looked at the prequels that are out there, there weren’t that many, and the ones that exist aren't great...how do we get people to come along on this journey even though they know where we're ending up? Can we get people to invest in his wants and desires and...almost
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Southern Decadence


. Two weeks later, the group threw another party as a farewell to Michael Evers, who left to join his lover, David Randolph, in Michigan. The first small "walking parade" occurred the following year when the participants first met at Johnny Matassa's Bar in the French Quarter to show off their costumes and then walk back home to Belle Reve, a name taken from A Streetcar Named Desire, in the Tremé neighbourhood via Esplanade Avenue. This first group impersonated people and characters ranging from Belle Watling (the prostitute
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Cradle Will Rock


period. The book includes the film’s script, which is accompanied by essays and pictures describing the people, events, and themes that are the basis for the film. The children's play "Revolt of the Beavers" by playwright/screenwriter Oscar Saul (who would later do the screenplay for "A Streetcar Named Desire") was also featured in this film. It, too, was under scrutiny from the HUAC for promoting a communistic ideal of equal work and equal rewards. In the film it was valiantly defended
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Wanda L. Bass School of Music


Theatre productions. The school produces six main stage shows each season. In recent years the school has produced many shows including; "Parade", "La Boheme", "Seussical", "The Secret Garden", "The Music Man", "Urban Cowboy:The Musical", "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Opera), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Opera), "The Magic Flute", "The Pirates of Penzance", "Guys and Dolls", "Falstaff"
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Gillian Anderson


first collaboration between the Young Vic Theatre and National Theatre Live, the show was broadcast live to over 1100 venues on September 16, 2014. Thus far, it has been screened in more than 2000 venues. In February 2015, Anderson directed and starred in a short film prequel to "A Streetcar Named Desire", titled "The Departure", written by novelist Andrew O'Hagan. This is part of the Young Vic's short film series, which is produced in collaboration with "The Guardian". In October 2014,
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Karl Malden


Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor who "for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television", especially in such classic films as "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) — for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — "On the Waterfront" (1954), "Pollyanna" (1960), and "
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Elaine Benes


"The Busboy" (off camera) and "The Pothole" she borrows Jerry's, and in "The Wait Out" her friend Elise's car. In "The Burning" she borrows then-boyfriend David Puddy's. Also, it's revealed that she's a horrible driver who slams on the brakes and wildly steers the car. Elaine also has a very refined taste in film, citing many movies, plays and characters throughout the series. She has a particular affection for "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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Sundance Film Festival


The 1978 festival featured films such as "Deliverance", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Midnight Cowboy", "Mean Streets", and "The Sweet Smell of Success". With chairman Robert Redford, and the help of Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson, the goal of the festival was to showcase strictly American-made films, highlight the potential of independent film, and to increase visibility for filmmaking in Utah. At the time, the main focus of the event was to conduct a competition for independent American
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Ben Batt


late 1980s Rave culture he played the main antagonist John Anderson. He has also had many smaller roles, such as in "" as an Enlistment Office MP and in "The Promise" as Private Derek Toogood. Other minor parts include roles in "Accused", "Salvage", "Wire in the Blood", "Lewis", "Casualty", "The Edge of Love", "" and "Death in Paradise". In 2016 he starred as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee
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Kjersti Holmen


' "A Streetcar Named Desire". Holmen is also a well-known television and film actress, and had her break-through on the big screen in the 1985 film "Orions belte"'. She has won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – twice: in 1993 for her role in "Telegrafisten", and in 2000 for the two films "S.O.S." and "Sophie's World". In television she is known from the Norwegian/Swedish collaboration ""Röd snö"" – aired
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Kathryn Erbe


Lynn Redgrave's character on the sitcom "Chicken Soup". She later became a member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has starred in many of their productions, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Curse of the Starving Class", and "The Grapes of Wrath", which ran for six months and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Play. Erbe earned a Tony Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in "The Speed of Darkness". Erbe starred in such films as "What About Bob
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The Madness of Lady Bright


, "New York Times", and others. "The VillageVoice" called the play "poignant and funny", possessed of "more than routine interest". The Boy and Girl characters, it felt, were too "smoothly generalized" to succeed, but overall the review deemed the writing strong. Later critics have compared Leslie Bright to the fading belles found in the works of Tennessee Williams, suggesting an echo of the conclusion of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in Bright's final hallucination of doctors coming to inter
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Who Am I This Time?


the young architect in "The Moon is Blue", Henry the Eighth in "Anne of the Thousand Days" and Doc in "Come Back Little Sheba". He's also known for his intense shyness when he's out of character or without a script in front of him. When approached with a new role, he asks "Who am I this time?". In the story, he plays Marlon Brando's role in "A Streetcar Named Desire". It's in this context that he meets Helene
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Dear Dad...Again


and Margaret's attempt to sing "My Blue Heaven" at the camp "No-Talent Show". Hawkeye's line, "I have always relied upon the kindness of strangers" (at minute 6:49), is a reference to Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire", with the line spoken by the character Blanche DuBois. Hawkeye asks his father to "kiss sis, and Mom" in his letter to him. This is contradicted in later episodes which reveal Hawkeye as an only child with his
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Shobha Deepak Singh


continued her association with Alkazi and worked as his assistant for four of Alkazi productions namely, "Three Sisters", "Three Greek Tragedies", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and "Death of a Salesman". After the death of Sumitra Charat Ram in 2011, she took over the management of SBKK as its director and runs the activities of the Kendra, aided by her husband. Singh, a recipient of the 1999 Padma Shri honours, lives in New Delhi with her husband, Deepak Singh, and the
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Rebel Without a Cause


not auditioning for "Rebel Without a Cause", and there was no offer of any part made by the studio. The film, as it later appeared, was the result of a totally new script written in the 1950s that had nothing to do with the Brando test. The screen test is included on a 2006 special edition DVD of the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire". According to a biography of Natalie Wood, she almost did not get the role of Judy because Nicholas Ray thought that she did not
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Lila De Nobili


, up until her death in 2002. In Paris, De Nobili began doing illustrations of the haute couture collections for various magazines, especially "Vogue". Lila De Nobili created stage and costume designs for many of the most important productions of her time, including "Angel Pavement" (1947), "Le voleur d'enfants" (1948), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1949), "La Petite Lili" (1951), "Anna Karenine" (1951), "Gigi" (1951)
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A Streetcar Named Desire


on the opinions of 17 critics. A production at the Young Vic, London, opened on July 23, 2014, and closed on September 19, 2014. Directed by Benedict Andrews and starring Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster, Vanessa Kirby and Corey Johnson; this production garnered critical acclaim and is the fastest selling show ever produced by the Young Vic. On September 16, 2014, the performance was relayed live to over one thousand cinemas in the UK as part of the National Theatre Live project to broadcast the best of British
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Robert Pastorelli


Cause". He also performed in productions of "The Rainmaker", and "Death of a Salesman". Later in his career he performed at London's South Bank theater in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 2002. In 1982 Pastorelli headed west to Los Angeles seeking opportunities in Hollywood. Spending the early 1980s employed in television bit-part appearances, he found a niche playing streetwise characters, appearing also in supporting roles in the cinema films "Outrageous Fortune" (1987) and "Beverly Hills Cop II"
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Machismo


in American literature, an example of machismo comes from Tennessee Williams' character Stanley Kowalski, an egotistical brother-in-law, from "A Streetcar Named Desire". In the play (and 1951 film adaptation), Stanley epitomizes the tough, alpha-male (hypermasculine) archetype, socially and physically dominating and imposing his will upon his wife and her sister, Blanche Dubois. Bound up with Stanley's aggressive and occasionally misogynistic views is a strong sense of pride and honor which leads to his hatred of Blanche.
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Hannah Gross


A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947) for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She performed in Williams' 1953 one-act play "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen" in 2012. Gross was cast in "I Used to Be Darker" (2013) after meeting its director, Matthew Porterfield, at the after show party for the New York City screening of his previous film, "Putty Hill" (2010). Also in 2013, she played the title character in Dustin Guy Defa
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Kristine Nielsen


) playing various characters, including Rose Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. In 2000 she played the role of Ninetta in a new production of "The Green Bird". In 2005 she played Eunice Hubbell opposite Natasha Richardson's Blanche Dubois and Amy Ryan's Stella in "A Streetcar Named Desire". In 2008 she played Madame de Volanges opposite Laura Linney as Marquise de Merteuil in "Dangerous Liaisons" and also played Anna in "To Be or Not to Be". In 2010 she played The Storyteller in "Bloody Bloody Andrew
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Disability in the arts


disabled by a lobotomy as a young woman. Characters who reflect Rose's struggle with mental illness include Laura in "The Glass Menagerie", Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", and Catherine in the screenplay Williams wrote for the 1959 film "Suddenly, Last Summer". In Williams' plays, such women are seen as suffering tragedy as a result of their illness. Leonard Gershe's "Butterflies Are Free", about a young blind man who wins his independence from an overprotective mother, debuted on Broadway
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