query: who played blanche dubois in streetcar named desire

pos: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) film. Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden were all cast in their original Broadway roles. Although Jessica Tandy originated the role of Blanche DuBois on Broadway, Vivien Leigh, who had appeared in the London theatre production, was cast in the film adaptation for her star power. Upon release of the film, Marlon Brando, virtually unknown at the time of the play's casting, rose to prominence as a major Hollywood film star, and received the 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,

pos: Claire Bloom a society that was, and still is, so preoccupied with class and accent." Bloom has appeared in a number of plays and theatrical works in both London and New York. Those works include "Look Back in Anger", "Rashomon", and Bloom's favourite role, that of Blanche DuBois, in a revival of the Tennessee Williams play, 'Duel of Angels'(by Jean Giraudoux) costarring with Vivien Leigh in 1958, "A Streetcar Named Desire", which played in London in 1974. Critic Clive Barnes described the play as a "notable example of what the classic revival should be – well groomed, but thoughtful, expressive, illuminating." Another

pos: Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh (; born Vivian Mary Hartley, and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 19138 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her iconic performances as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of "Tovarich" (1963). After completing her drama school education, Leigh

pos: Mickey Kuhn the role of Beau Wilkes (Ashley and Melanie's son) in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). He later went on to appear in "Juarez" (1939) opposite Bette Davis, as the adoptive son of John Wayne in "Red River", and in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), in which he was reunited with Vivien Leigh a dozen years after they first worked together in "Gone with the Wind". In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Kuhn played a sailor who directs Blanche to the correct streetcar which will take her to her sister's neighborhood at the beginning of the film. He is the only actor

pos: Aldwych Theatre Ben Travers. Members of the regular company for these farces included Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Ethel Coleridge, Gordon James, Mary Brough, Winifred Shotter and Robertson Hare. In 1933, Richard Tauber presented and starred in a new version of "Das Dreimäderlhaus" at the Aldwych under the title "Lilac Time". From the mid-1930s until about 1960, the theatre was owned by the Abrahams family. In 1949 Laurence Olivier directed the first London production of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Aldwych Theatre. Starring as Blanche DuBois was Olivier's wife Vivien Leigh, who later won an Academy Award for the role

pos: Karl Malden with the help of director Elia Kazan. With that success, he then crossed over into steady film work. Malden resumed his film acting career in the 1950s, starting with "The Gunfighter and Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950) and "Halls of Montezuma" (1951). "A Streetcar Named Desire" (also 1951) saw Malden playing Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell, Stanley Kowalski's best friend, who starts a romance with Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh). For this role, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other films during this period included Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess" (1953) with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter, and "On the Waterfront"

pos: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) scenes of escalating conflict between Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, or when Karl Malden shines the light on Leigh to see how old she is, or when the camera hovers over Leigh, collapsed on the floor, with her head at 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

neg: Stella Kowalski Award for her performance. In the 1984 TV movie she was portrayed by Beverly D'Angelo and in the 1995 TV movie she was portrayed by Diane Lane. In the 1951 film adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire", there is a suggestion that Stella may leave Stanley after she finds out about the rape. 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

neg: Blanche DuBois The character is reputedly named after theatre critic Blanche Marvin, a former actress and friend of Williams. 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 revealed that,

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) 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 directed the Broadway stage production, also directed the black and white

neg: Cate Blanchett by Liv Ullmann. She starred as Blanche DuBois alongside Joel Edgerton as Stanley Kowalski. Ullmann and Blanchett had been meaning to collaborate on a project since Ullman's intended film adaption of "A Doll's House" fell by the wayside. Blanchett proposed embarking on "Streetcar" to Ullmann, who jumped at the opportunity after initial discussion. "A Streetcar Named Desire" production traveled from Sydney to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. It was critically and commercially successful and Blanchett received critical acclaim for her performance as Blanche DuBois. "The New York Times" critic Ben

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire 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 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

neg: Blanche DuBois 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 revealed that, years earlier, her husband, Allan Grey, committed suicide after she caught him having sex with another man.

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) 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". Under mysterious circumstances, Blanche DuBois, an aging high school teacher, leaves her home in Auriol, Mississippi to travel to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella Kowalski. She arrives on the train and boards a streetcar named "Desire" and reaches her sister's home in the French Quarter where she discovers that her sister and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, live in a cramped

neg: Stella Kowalski 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 New Orleans, she met her soon-to-be husband, Stanley Kowalski, who

neg: A Streetcar Named Marge many fans, and show creator Matt Groening has named it one of his favorite episodes. While Homer, Bart and Lisa are watching television, Marge announces that she is going to audition for a local musical production of "A Streetcar Named Desire", and she wants to meet new people because she usually spends all day caring for Maggie. The rest of the family pay no attention and continue to watch television. The musical, "Oh, Streetcar!", is directed by Llewellyn Sinclair. After Ned is cast as Stanley Kowalski, Marge auditions for Blanche DuBois. Llewellyn immediately rejects Marge, explaining that Blanche is supposed

neg: Uta Hagen New York Times" critic Brooks Atkinson hailed her Nina as "grace and aspiration incarnate". She played George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" (1951) on Broadway, and Desdemona in a production which toured and played Broadway, featuring Paul Robeson as Shakespeare's Othello and her then-husband Jose Ferrer as Iago. She took over the role of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" for the national tour, which was directed not by Elia Kazan who had directed the Broadway production but by Harold Clurman. Hagen had had a revelatory experience when she first worked with Clurman in 1947. In "Respect for Acting", she

neg: Blanche Marvin 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" (which means "Star"), and took the play's line "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" from something she said to

neg: A Streetcar Named Marge A Streetcar Named Marge "A Streetcar Named Marge" is the second episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> 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 in which Maggie Simpson attempts to retrieve her pacifier from a strict daycare owner.

neg: Natasha Richardson Blanche DuBois in the revival of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", opposite John C. Reilly as Stanley Kowalski. In January 2009, two months before her death, Richardson played the role of Desirée in a concert production of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music", with her mother Vanessa Redgrave who played Mme. Armfeldt. At the time of Richardson's death, the pair were preparing to co-star in a Broadway revival of the musical. In 1984, Richardson made her first credited screen appearance as an art tutor in the James Scott-directed "Every Picture Tells A Story", based on the early life of

neg: Tennessee Williams a main production and related events such as literary 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 Desire" is

neg: Seana McKenna Manitoba Theatre Centre/MTC), Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (Theatre New Brunswick), Eliza Dollitle in "Pygmalion" and the title role in "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival), "Medea" by Euripides and "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen (MTC), Blanche Dubois again at MTC, "Wit" by Margaret Edson at the Canadian Stage Company, "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Royal Alexandra Theatre, "" by John Patrick Shanley at the Canadian Stage Company, "Phèdre" by Jean Racine (American Conservatory Theater), and "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion (Belfry Theatre, Tarragon Theatre,

neg: Kristine Nielsen "The Iceman Cometh" as Pearl. She next appeared in "Jackie: An American Life" (1997) 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 Jackson". She later

neg: Helen Twelvetrees role of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in summer stock in Sea Cliff, New York, in August 1951. Fellow cast member Naomi Caryl (who played Eunice Hubbell) recalled that Twelvetrees had "the saddest eyes I'd ever seen" and "it was also obvious that she had an extremely fragile psyche." Helen Twelvetrees was married three times. She married her first husband, actor Clark Twelvetrees, in February 1927. During the marriage Clark Twelvetrees attempted suicide by jumping out a window. He was hospitalized for several months afterwards. In March 1930, she filed for divorce, citing mental cruelty. During the divorce

neg: Miquel Brown in "French Kiss", with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. She can be heard on the London cast recordings of "Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens" (1993) and "Fame" (1995) (as Miss Sherman, the English teacher). Brown played the Negro Woman in the 2001 play "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton), in London, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Glenn Close as Blanche DuBois. She also appeared in the 2001 film "Wit", where she has a brief exchange with Emma Thompson (who plays Vivian Bearing), as the second technician. In 2004, Brown appeared as Idella in

neg: Annemarie Wendl Annemarie Wendl Annemarie Wendl (26 December 1914, Trostberg, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria – 3 September 2006, Munich, Bavaria, Germany) was a German actress. Wendl was born into an upper-class family in Bavaria and began her training as an actress in Berlin at Lucie Höflich's seminar. Afterwards, she played classical roles on stage in Berlin, Bonn, Augsburg, Innsbruck, Munich, Bamberg and Ingolstadt. In her youth, she played "all sentimental characters", such as "Faust's" Gretchen and Emilia Galotti. Later she played character roles, such as Adelheid in "Götz von Berlichingen", Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", Maria Stuart in the play by

neg: Passenger rail terminology streetcar (also known as heritage trolley or vintage trolley) is an American term for streetcar systems that use vehicles that were built before 1960, or modern replicas of such vehicles. Cable car is an American word for a passenger rail vehicle attached to a moving cable located below the street surface and powered by engines or motors at a central location, not on board the vehicle. There are cable cars operating in numerous cities, such as San Francisco. In the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire", the term "streetcar" is used allegorically to refer to Blanche DuBois' promiscuity and

neg: Gerald S. O'Loughlin 1986, O'Loughlin played the part of Mr. Parks in a first season episode of "Highway to Heaven" entitled "The Brightest Star". In 1988, he played Tom Callahan in "Dirty Dancing". In 1992 he appeared as Ben Oliver in "Murder She Wrote" in the episode "Badge of Honor". O'Loughlin's professional acting career began in repertory work at Crystal Lake Theatre in upstate New York. The highlight of O'Loughlin's stage career was a national tour of "A Streetcar Named Desire" as Stanley Kowalski, opposite Tallulah Bankhead as Blanche DuBois. His movie credits include "Ensign Pulver", "In Cold Blood", "Ice Station Zebra", "The

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire Erkel Theatre in Budapest revisited the production with Marianna Venekei choreographing, Iurii Kekalo dancing as Stanley Kowalski, Lea Földi as Blanche DuBois, and Anna Krupp as Stella. In 1955, the television program "Omnibus" featured Jessica Tandy reviving her original Broadway performance as Blanche, with her husband, Hume Cronyn, as Mitch. It aired only portions of the play that featured the Blanche and Mitch characters. The multi-Emmy Award-winning 1984 television version featured Ann-Margret as Blanche, Treat Williams as Stanley, Beverly D'Angelo as Stella and Randy Quaid as Mitch. It was directed by John Erman and the teleplay was adapted by Oscar

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire finest plays of the 20th century, and is considered by many to be Williams' greatest work. After the loss of her family home, Belle Reve, to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from the small town of Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Quarter to live with her younger, married sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Blanche is in her thirties and, with no money, has nowhere else to go. Blanche tells Stella that she has taken a leave of absence from her English-teaching position because of her nerves (which is later revealed to be a lie). Blanche laments the shabbiness

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire of her sister's two-room flat. She finds Stanley loud and rough, eventually referring to him as "common". Stanley, in return, does not care for Blanche's manners and dislikes her presence. Stanley later questions Blanche about her earlier marriage. Blanche had married when she was very young, but her husband died, leaving her widowed and alone. The memory of her dead husband causes Blanche some obvious distress. Stanley, worried that he has been cheated out of an inheritance, demands to know what happened to Belle Reve, once a large plantation and the DuBois family home. Blanche hands over all the documents

neg: Machismo 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. In the play "A View from the Bridge" by Arthur Miller, one of the main characters, Eddie, is a classic type who displays machismo. He wants to be the best of the men around him and when

neg: Elizabeth A. Davis on the New York-shot "Taxi: Brooklyn". She was also seen in FOX's "Fringe" in the "Ability" episode and on "One Life to Live". Davis has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions, including the Off-Broadway production of "Wolves" as Kay at the 59E59 Theatre. She played the role of Sister James in at the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida and starred as Blanche Dubois in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Cleveland Playhouse. She played the role of Célimène in a New Jersey Shakespeare Festival production of "The Misanthrope" and has also understudied the lead female

neg: Jennifer Ehle and paternally, German. Ehle appeared as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire", in which her mother played Blanche DuBois. She spent her childhood in both the UK and the US, attending several different schools, including Interlochen Arts Academy. She was raised largely in Asheville, North Carolina. Her drama training was split between the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Ehle made her West End debut as Orgon's wife in the 1991 Peter Hall Company production of "Tartuffe", for which she won second prize at

neg: Claire Bloom her Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", critic Kenneth Tynan stated it was "the best Juliet I've ever seen". After she starred as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", its playwright, Tennessee Williams, stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom". In 1952, Bloom was discovered by Hollywood film star Charlie Chaplin to co-star alongside him in "Limelight". During her film career, she starred alongside numerous major actors, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Yul Brynner, George C. Scott, James Mason, Paul Newman and Rod Steiger. In 2010, Bloom played the role of Queen

neg: Karolos Koun bawdy, colorful stagings of the 5th century BC political comedies of Aristophanes. In 1942, he founded the experimental "Art Theater" and its drama school. Koun gave premieres in Athens of works by avant-garde European playwrights such as Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello. In 1962, Koun's production of "The Birds" by Aristophanes won first prize at an international festival at Paris. He worked with famed actress Melina Mercouri. She played Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" which was staged by Koun's Art Theater. Other playwrights that Koun introduced to Greek audiences include Jean Genet, Federico García Lorca and Eugène Ionesco.

neg: Vivien Heilbron Investigates", "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club", "Taggart", "The New Statesman", and "Poirot". On stage she has played Elizabeth in "Richard III" opposite Derek Jacobi and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. She more recently returned in "An Evening With Grassic Gibbon", playing The Narrator. She is Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, in Stratford-upon-Avon. She is an Examiner for LAMDA examinations and also a teacher of private drama lessons. She is married to actor David Rintoul. She is the elder sister of actress Lorna Heilbron and the sister-in-law

neg: Penny (The Big Bang Theory) career, in the season five premiere, she briefly considers returning to Nebraska until landing a part in a commercial for hemorrhoid cream. In "The Monster Isolation", Penny is seen performing the role of Blanche DuBois in her acting class' production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In this episode Sheldon, who attended the show along with Leonard and Amy, is impressed with Penny's ability to memorize lines, but still couldn't remember customers' orders as a waitress. In the season seven premiere, she was revealed to have had a topless shower scene in a low budget horror film named "Serial Apeist" when

neg: Disability in the arts people with disabilities as performers and staff. Some notable 20th-century plays have dealt directly with disability. American playwright Tennessee Williams wrote many plays with female leads who were at least in part inspired by his sister Rose, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and then left severely 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

neg: Elysian Fields Avenue Streetcar Names Desire". Williams presents the setting as multi-cultural and vibrant with Jazz culture and social life. Blanche Dubois, the tragic heroine of the play, is seen to be "incongruous" to the setting, which is used by Williams' to highlight the cosmopolitan nature of the city and decay of the Old South, which Blanche symbolises. Elysian Fields Avenue Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue intersects with Interstate

neg: Tallulah Bankhead Algonquin Hotel, Bankhead left prominent impressions upon playwrights such as Zoe Akins and Rachel Crothers. Crothers later wrote the play "Everyday" for Bankhead, and Akins patterned the character of Eva Lovelace in her play "Morning Glory" on Bankhead. She became good friends with Tennessee Williams, who was immediately struck upon meeting her, describing her as "result[ing] from the fantastic crossbreeding of a moth and a tiger". Williams wrote four female roles for her, Myra Torrance in "Battle of Angels", Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", Princess Kosmonopolis in "Sweet Bird of Youth", and Flora Goforth in "The Milk Train

neg: Laurel, Mississippi Intervention Center is in Laurel. Amtrak's "Crescent" train connects Laurel with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. The Laurel Amtrak station is situated at 230 North Maple Street. Hattiesburg–Laurel Regional Airport is located in an unincorporated area in Jones County near Moselle, southwest of Laurel. Laurel residents Erin and Ben Napier are featured in the HGTV series "Home Town", which premiered on March 21, 2017. In Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire", Blanche DuBois is known here as a prostitute who frequents the Hotel Flamingo, as told to Stanley by the

neg: The Seven Descents of Myrtle The Seven Descents of Myrtle The Seven Descents of Myrtle is a play by Tennessee Williams. It originally began as a short story, which Williams then turned into a one-act play, and then later revised it into the seven-act play that is accepted today. Its title character is reminiscent of another Williams' heroine, Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire". Originally titled "Kingdom of Earth", the serio-comic play focuses on Lot, a tubercular neurotic youth who is an impotent, closeted transvestite overly attached to the memory of his late mother. He has returned to his ancestral home, a decaying house

neg: A Streetcar Named Marge had previously voiced characters in "The Way We Was", "Brush with Greatness", and "Homer Defined". Lovitz later worked with Al Jean and Mike Reiss in the animated sitcom "The Critic", and returned to "The Simpsons" for the episodes "A Star Is Burns", "Hurricane Neddy", "Half-Decent Proposal", "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" and "Homerazzi". In 2006, Lovitz was named the eighth-best "Simpsons" guest star by IGN. Though "Oh, Streetcar!" 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

neg: Cate Blanchett in "Hamlet" at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney in 1994, Susan in "Plenty" in the West End in 1999, and the title role in "Hedda Gabler" with the Sydney Theatre Company in 2004. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband Andrew Upton were co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Her other roles on stage include Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in Sydney, New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center in 2009; Yelena in "Uncle Vanya" in Sydney, Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center and New

neg: Mia Slavenska was as a strongly dramatic Blanche DuBois in Valerie Bettis' modern choreography of "A Streetcar Named Desire", premiered in Her Majesty's Theatre in Montreal in 1952. She became the prima ballerina of the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1954 – 55. She opened a ballet studio in New York in 1960, then taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1969 to 1983 and concurrently at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1970 to 1983. Mia Slavenska Mia Slavenska (February 20, 1916 in Slavonski Brod – October 5, 2002 in Los Angeles), birth name Mia Čorak, was

neg: Melina Mercouri of Electra in Eugene O'Neill's play "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1945. In 1949, she had her first major success in the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", written by Tennessee Williams and staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by Aldous Huxley, Arthur Miller and André Roussin. Mercouri then moved to Paris, where she appeared in boulevard plays by Jacques Deval and Marcel Achard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, Mercouri received the

neg: Vanda Godsell in shows like "The Saint", "Coronation Street", "Minder", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Bless This House", "In Loving Memory" and "Taxi!". She appeared as Blanche DuBois in a critically acclaimed version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in the West End. Vanda Godsell Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 11 April 1990) was an English actress. Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie, "Vanda Godsell specialised in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies and blowsy domestics." She appeared as Mrs. Weaver in "This Sporting Life" (1963), Mrs. Pitt in "Bitter Harvest" (1965), Mrs. Goodge in "The Wrong Box" (1967) She was born near Bristol into

neg: Sigrid Thornton the Melbourne Theatre Company opposite Marcus Graham. In 2009 she made her debut with Opera Australia in its production at Melbourne's Arts Centre as Desiree Armfeldt in Sondheim and Wheeler's "A Little Night Music", directed by Stuart Maunder. In 2014, she won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" for the Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth. In 2015, she appeared in the premiere of Stephen Beckett's play "Diary of a Nobody", inspired by the 1892 novel "The Diary of a Nobody", at the Princess Theatre, Launceston, Tasmania. The same

neg: Barbara Walsh Public Theater, playing the role of Pat Nixon. Walsh's work includes national touring productions of "Oklahoma!", "Les Misérables", the 1990 US tour of Chess, for which her performance as Svetlana earned her a Carbonell Award, and the 1984 national tour of "Nine," in which she reprised her role as Francesca from the Broadway production. Regionally, Walsh has been seen in "Houdini" in 1997 and "Exactly Like You" in 1998 at Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. She starred in Gretna Theatre's 1997 production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" as Blanche DuBois. Walsh replaced Donna Bullock in the role of Mother in

neg: Nurgül Yeşilçay Nurgül Yeşilçay Nurgül Yeşilçay (born 26 March 1976) is a Turkish stage and film actress. Nurgül Yeşilçay was born in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, in 1976. She studied drama at the State Conservatoire of Anadolu University in Eskişehir. Since her graduation, she has performed several major roles for the stage, including Ophelia in "Hamlet" and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire". Theatre aside, she shot to prominence as the lead in, among others, three record-breaking Turkish television dramas. Her movie, "Edge of Heaven" won the prize for best screenplay at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007. She reported "big projects

neg: Nicole Ari Parker his films: "Blue Streak" and "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins". Parker also opened on Broadway in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, in the role of Blanche DuBois. Parker was lead actress in the 2013 NBC drama pilot, "Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives", and later had a recurring role on "Revolution". In 2014, she starred as a series regular in the first season of the TNT crime drama "Murder in the First", opposite Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. Parker eloped with actor Joseph Falasca in March 2001. Their marriage lasted only eight months; they divorced later that year. She married

neg: Lise Fjeldstad Lise Fjeldstad Lise Barbra Skappel Fjeldstad (born 17 June 1939) is a Norwegian actress, and daughter of the conductor and violinist Øivin Fjeldstad. A graduate of the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1963, she started working at Det Norske Teatret (the Norwegian Theater) immediately afterward. In 1975 she was hired by the National Theatre, where she has acted in roles such as "Blanche Dubois" in Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", and "Agnes" in Henrik Ibsens "Brand". She won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – for best actress for her role in "Dødsdansen" in 1991. She

neg: Lois Nettleton 1989 ("Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series"). Nettleton appeared in a 2006 Christmas TV movie special, "The Christmas Card". A life member of the Actors Studio, Nettleton made her Broadway debut in the 1949 production of Dalton Trumbo's play, "The Biggest Thief in Town" using the name Lydia Scott. She appeared in a 1959 off-Broadway production of "Look Charlie", which was written by her future husband, humorist Jean Shepherd. She received critical praise for her performance as Blanche DuBois in a 1973 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Nettleton was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as

neg: Jessica Lange and the City" and also starred in a television adaptation of Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", receiving her seventh Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Her Broadway debut, which was met by mixed reviews, also occurred that same year when she portrayed Blanche DuBois in a production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire", opposite Alec Baldwin. In 1994, Lange was lauded for her performance as a manic depressive army wife in the 1960s in Tony Richardson's final film, "Blue Sky". In 1995, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, the

neg: Laurence Olivier Although it was common knowledge that the Old Vic triumvirate had been dismissed, they refused to be drawn on the matter in public, and Olivier even arranged to play a final London season with the company in 1949, as Richard III, Sir Peter Teazle, and Chorus in his own production of Anouilh's "Antigone" with Leigh in the title role. After that, he was free to embark on a new career as an actor-manager. In partnership with Binkie Beaumont he staged the English premiere of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", with Leigh in the central role of Blanche DuBois. The

neg: Tim Potter Deborah Warner and Stephen Frears. He was a founder member, with Jim Cartwright and Louis Mellis of Acme Acting, a theatre company which performed plays in domestic homes, using the whole house, with the audience following the actors room to room. His roles included Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Col. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now". His film roles include the Ghost of Christmas Future in "A Christmas Carol" (1999) opposite Patrick Stewart, and Captain Hook in "Finding Neverland" (2004), as well as roles in "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" (1995), "Entrapment" (1999), "Faintheart" (2008), "Still Life" (2013), and the

neg: Melina Mercouri her husband, Jules Dassin. Mercouri's last performance on stage was in the opera "Pylades" at the Athens Concert Hall in 1992, portraying Clytemnestra. One of her first songs was by Manos Hadjidakis and Nikos Gatsos. It was titled "Hartino to Fengaraki" ("Papermoon") and was a part of the Greek production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1949, in which she starred as Blanche DuBois. The first official recording of this, now-legendary song was made by Nana Mouskouri in 1960, although the company Sirius, created by Manos Hadjidakis, issued, in 2004, a recording Melina had made for French television during the

neg: Gretchen Egolf in London’s West End) and Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway, directed by Gerald Gutierrez. Off-Broadway, Egolf has appeared in Davey Holmes’ More Lies About Jerzy at The Vineyard Theater and a number of new plays with Second Stage Theatre, The Flea Theater (in Polly Draper’s "Getting Into Heaven"), The Women’s Project Theatre, and Dodger Stages (now New World Stages) (in "Modern Orthodox", directed by James Lapine). Egolf has also worked in many American regional theaters. She received critical acclaim for her Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire at The

neg: Kerry Peers Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play) directed by Terry Hands at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Paradise Bound at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and playing Billy's mother in Billy Liar at the Liverpool Playhouse. She has also performed in a number of plays directed by one of the UK's leading young directors, Nikolai Foster. These included a career defining Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (play) as well as parts in Ayckbourn'a Absent Friends (play), A Song at Twilight by Noël Coward, Terry Johnson's Dead Funny and a touring production of Sherlock Holmes: The Best Kept Secret in 2013. Kerry won the

neg: Jessica Tandy Ophelia (opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet) and Katherine (opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V). During this period, she also worked in a number of British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She received the Tony Award for best performance by a Leading Actress in A Play for her performance as Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1948. Tandy shared the prize

neg: Gillian Anderson a character based on the humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine. The film presents the issues of child trafficking and sexual slavery in India, and is based on Patricia McCormick's novel of the same name. In July 2014, Anderson gained critical acclaim for her stage performance as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams at the Young Vic Theatre in London. She won the "Evening Standard" Theatre Award for Best Actress and received her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress. The production became the fastest-selling show in the theatre's history, and the run was extended by two

neg: Lauren Harris with her new hard rock band, Six Hour Sundown, performing at venues in the UK as well as the European Graspop, Download, and Sonisphere festivals. She frequently performs barefoot. Harris commenced a new musical project, Kingdom of I, working with songwriter Dave Stewart and drummer Shauney Recke. Harris is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Oxford School of Drama and has appeared in numerous stage productions, highlighting with a London production as the role of Blanche Dubois in "Streetcar Named Desire". Harris has appeared in the feature film "Adrift in Soho.". Harris began

neg: Rachel Weisz of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer", "What's on Stage" called her "captivating", stating that she brought "a degree of credibility to a difficult part". The same year, Weisz appeared in Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things" at the Almeida Theatre, then temporarily located in London's King's Cross. CurtainUp called her "a sophisticated, independent artist" with "great stage presence". In 2009, she appeared as Blanche DuBois, in Rob Ashford's revival of the play "A Streetcar Named Desire". Her performance in the play was praised by the critics, the "Daily Telegraph" noted that she "rises to the challenge magnificently". Weisz and her

neg: Allen Leech he failed to have success as an actor. He landed his first major roles in "Cowboys & Angels" and "Man About Dog" while at Trinity, and he has admitted that he did little schoolwork because he spent his time on auditions and acting. Leech's first professional stage role was in 1998 at the Gate in their production of "A Streetcar Named Desire". "I was the gentleman caller to Frances McDormand's Blanche Dubois. The Coen brothers were walking backstage, and me a naive 16-year-old." He appeared as Willi in the "Queen and Peacock", at the Garter Lane Arts Centre. The following

neg: Jessica Tandy to supporting appearances in "The Valley of Decision" (1945), "The Green Years" (1946, as Cronyn's daughter), "Dragonwyck" (1946) starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price and "Forever Amber" (1947). Over the next three decades, her film career continued sporadically while she found better roles on the stage. Her roles during this time included "" (1951) opposite James Mason, "The Light in the Forest" (1958), and a role as a domineering mother in Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds" (1963). On Broadway, she won a Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire"

neg: Jessica Lange of "A Streetcar Named Desire", opposite Alec Baldwin, Diane Lane, and John Goodman. She received glowing reviews for her performance, which earned her fourth Golden Globe Award and her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. In 1996, Lange made her London stage debut in another performance as Blanche DuBois, which received rave reviews. The following year, she starred opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in a film adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "A Thousand Acres". Lange received her ninth Golden Globe Award nomination and won the Venice Film Festival's Schermi d'Amore award

neg: Elysium Pity She's a Whore" Giovanni seals his requited love for his sister Annabella, stating "And I'de not change it 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

neg: Gillian Anderson the '90s and again in 2015, when negotiating her salary with the network. She has been outspoken about the ongoing issue throughout the years. From April 23, 2016 through June 4, 2016, Anderson reprised her role of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" on stage at the new St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York City. On September 13, 2016, Anderson and Rovin published "The Sound of Seas"; their third and final novel of "The EarthEnd Saga" trilogy. The same month, she returned to portraying DSU Stella Gibson in the third series of "The Fall". Anderson is the narrator

neg: Marianne Hoppe this period of her life as "the black page in my golden book". During her time acting at the home of the Prussian State Theatre, the Schauspielhaus, Hoppe developed her analytical approach to acting, which she stated consisted in her "taking apart every sentence" and giving the use of language a brilliance. This method was to be associated with Hoppe throughout her working life. In 1946 her only child, Benedikt Johann Percy Gründgens, was born. Four years later after her divorce from Gründgens, Hoppe had a great success as "Blanche Dubois" in Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", and increasingly

neg: Vivien Leigh Times", "I had nine months in the theatre of Blanche DuBois. Now she's in command of me." Olivier accompanied her to Hollywood where he was to co-star with Jennifer Jones in William Wyler's "Carrie" (1952). Leigh's performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" won glowing reviews, as well as a second Academy Award for Best Actress, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best British Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role "everything that I intended, and much that I had never dreamed

neg: Vivien Leigh Later, he would observe that he "lost Vivien" in Australia. The success of the tour encouraged the Oliviers to make their first West End appearance together, performing the same works with one addition, "Antigone," included at Leigh's insistence because she wished to play a role in a tragedy. Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in "The School for Scandal" and "Antigone"; Olivier was contracted to direct. The play contained a rape

neg: Renée Fleming Songs" with Claudio Abbado and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival. and later with the Berlin Philharmonic. She originated the roles of Blanche DuBois in the world première André Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire" with the San Francisco Opera in September 1998. 1999 brought appearances at the Bavarian State Opera as the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier" and she returned to Carnegie Hall to great success with a concert of German lieder. She also performed in recital with André Previn and made her debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. Fleming's CD, "The Beautiful Voice", won her a Grammy Award

neg: Marlon Brando "Antigone" that same year. He was also offered the opportunity to portray one of the principal characters in the Broadway premiere of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh", but turned the part down after falling asleep while trying to read the massive script and pronouncing the play "ineptly written and poorly constructed". In 1945, Brando's agent recommended he take a co-starring role in "The Eagle Has Two Heads" with Tallulah Bankhead, produced by Jack Wilson. Bankhead had turned down the role of Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", which Williams had written for her, to tour the play for the

neg: Diane Keaton Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations. Keaton is a 1964 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. During her time there, she participated in singing and acting clubs at school, and starred as Blanche DuBois in a school production of "A Streetcar Named Desire". After graduation, she attended Santa Ana College, and later Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan. Upon joining the Actors' Equity Association, she changed her surname to Keaton, her mother's

neg: Rachel Weisz production of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer", and their 2009 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Olivier Award for Best Actress. Weisz appeared in the film "The Mummy" (1999) and "The Mummy Returns" (2001). Other films that followed are "Enemy at the Gates" (2001), "About a Boy" (2002), "Constantine" (2005) and Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" (2006). For her supporting role in the drama thriller "The Constant Gardener" (2005), she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2006, Weisz received the BAFTA

neg: Faye Dunaway Dunaway portrayed Blanche DuBois in a Los Angeles stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire". "It was a fun performance for me, but hard, very draining. At the height of the madness each night, I would go from standing straight up to falling to my knees, in one swift move." Williams himself praised Dunaway for her performance, "He told me later that he thought I was brave and adorable and reminded him of a precocious child, and that my performance ranked with the very best. It was high praise indeed coming from him." Also in 1973, Dunaway appeared

neg: Stanley Kowalski 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 pregnant. Stanley's life becomes more complicated when Stella's sister Blanche shows up at their door

neg: Theatre and disability 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 happiness and fails to see the true beauty that she embodies. Because of this, she relies on the male figure for temporary fulfillment. This could be due to the extreme loss she has experienced in her lifetime. The

neg: William Shatner Blanche Dubois' and her sister Stella's family home in "A Streetcar Named Desire"), where he raises American Saddlebreds. Three of his notable horses include Call Me Ringo, Revival, and Sultan's Great Day. The farm's activities help benefit the Central Kentucky Riding for Hope "Horses For Heroes" program. Shatner also plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home Games, where celebrities play for their favorite charities. Since 1990, he has been a leading force behind the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, which raises money for children's charities. On New Years Day 1994, Shatner was the Grand Marshal of the Tournament

neg: Gretchen Egolf "Knots" at Tate Britain (2013) as well as Chodzko's radio and performance piece, "Rising" (2013), for solo actor, which she performed live in Newcastle, UK at the Great North Run/British Science Festival, and at Manchester University, UK at the "Ways of Seeing Climate Change" conference (October 2013). Egolf has also created written works, such as her invited guest contribution to the online experimental art curatorial project "Out of Focus". She also wrote a blog of her rehearsal experience playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Guthrie Theater. As a director and producer; Egolf created and directed the

neg: Gillian Anderson (2017). Aside from film and television, Anderson has taken on the stage and received both awards and critical acclaim. Her stage work includes "Absent Friends" (1991) – for which she won a Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer, "A Doll's House" (2009) – that earned her a Laurence Olivier Award nomination, and a portrayal of Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2014, 2016) – for which she won the "Evening Standard" Theatre Award for Best Actress and received her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress. Anderson is the co-writer of "The Earthend Saga" novel trilogy and the

neg: Cate Blanchett on screen and stage to perform several roles on stage, notably Susan Traherne in "Plenty" (1999), Hedda Gabler in "Hedda Gabler" (2004), Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2009), Yelena in "Uncle Vanya" (2011), and Claire in "The Maids" (2013). Blanchett's first leading role on television came with "Heartland" (1994), and she followed it with the miniseries "Bordertown" (1995). In 1997, she made her feature film debut in a supporting role in the World War II drama "Paradise Road". The same year, she had her first leading role in "Oscar and Lucinda", which earned her an AACTA Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett

neg: Maxine Peake follow her whenever she appears". A year later she appeared in Frankcom's production of "The Skriker", as "Caryl Churchill's shape-shifting, doom-wreaking fairy". "The Guardian"'s Lyn Gardner listed the production in her top ten British plays of the year. In 2016, Peake resumed her partnership with Royal Exchange Artistic Director, Sarah Frankcom, to star as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". Peake's performance in the role garnered critical acclaim with The Guardian describing her performance as "exquisite" and "breathtaking." In 2017 it was announced that Peake is to star in Mike Leigh's next feature, "Peterloo", a feature film

neg: Simone Orlando her performances as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Puck in The Faerie Queen, Fate in Carmina Burana, and the Elder in The Rite of Spring. She has also created roles with James Kudelka, Crystal Pite, Dominique Dumais, Mikko Nissenen, and Jean Grand-Maitre and has been featured in the works of William Forsythe, Paul Taylor, Nicolo Fonte, Jiri Kylian, Martha Graham, and Twyla Tharp, among others. Orlando also taught and set repertoire on the dancers of Ballet BC and the pre-professionals in the Ballet BC Mentor Program. Orlando’s career as a choreographer began in 1997. Her work has been

neg: Yvonne Kenny sang Sophie in both "Werther" and "Der Rosenkavalier". She was also a regular guest at the Glyndebourne Festival and the English National Opera. On the international scene, she appeared at opera houses in Zurich, Munich, Vienna, Aix-en-Provence, Washington, etc. She often returned home, appearing at the Sydney Opera House in roles including: Mélisande, Manon, Leila, Micaela, Fiordiligi, Pamina, and Cleopatra. Later she sang the roles of Richard Strauss. In 2009, Kenny appeared as Blanche DuBois in the Australian premiere of Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire" for Opera Australia. After her initial success with Opera Rara, she appeared in many recordings

neg: Veronica Lake to herself as a "sex zombie". When she went to the UK to promote her book in 1969 she received an offer to appear on stage in "Madam Chairman". Also in 1969, Lake essayed the role of Blanche DuBois in a revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" on the English stage; her performance won rave reviews. With the proceeds from her autobiography, after she had divided them with Bain, she co-produced and starred in her final film, "Flesh Feast" (1970), a low-budget horror movie with a Nazi-myth storyline. After purchasing an airplane for her husband, André de Toth, Lake earned

neg: Dear Dad...Again 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 mother deceased. He also mentions in "The Moose" that he always wanted a sister. When Hawkeye is supposed to be naked at the officer's mess, in some shots the top of his shorts can be seen. Dear Dad...Again "Dear Dad...Again" was episode No.18 of

neg: Ride (2012 film) Theatre in Santa Monica, California. "NME" journalist Lucy Jones compared Del Rey's role in "Ride" to Blanche DuBois' role in "A Streetcar Named Desire", calling it a "neurasthenic wreckage." Further reflecting on the Lolita persona, Jones says, "Del Rey's character atrophies into prostitution, seeking safety in other people" throughout the video, which she labels dis-empowering for women, while Del Rey's "suggested acceptance of a young woman selling sex for a roof over her head" might be seen as antifeminist, a word attributed to Del Rey's work since "Video Games." "OK!" and "Vibe" also noted the prostitution themes, the latter saying,

neg: All About My Mother and killed while chasing after actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire", in which she portrays Blanche DuBois. Manuela has to agree with her colleagues at work that her son's heart be transplanted to a man in A Coruña. After travelling after her son's heart, Manuela quits her job and journeys to Barcelona, where she hopes to find her son's father, Lola, a transvestite she kept secret from her son, just as she never told Lola they had a son. In Barcelona, Manuela reunites with her old friend Agrado, a warm and witty

neg: Olivia de Havilland 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 lifelong ambition to play Juliet on the stage. The play opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 11, 1951, to mixed reviews, with some critics believing the 35-year-old

neg: A Streetcar Named Marge 4 had screened the episode for offensive content, but the reviews focused on the main content of the episode, and the song was not considered a key part of the plot. Channel 4 promised to update their review process to ensure that similar incidents would not occur. A Streetcar Named Marge "A Streetcar Named Marge" is the second episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> 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

neg: A Streetcar Named Marge by the play. He feels for Blanche's situation, and he realizes Marge's feelings along with it. He expresses his intentions to be the husband that she deserves—someone to have in her life who loves her—not like Stanley who neglects and mistreats his wife. Marge realizes that Homer really did watch the musical, and the two happily leave the theater. "A Streetcar Named Marge" was conceived about two years before it aired on television. Jeff Martin first pitched the idea of Homer being in a theatrical production of "1776"; producer James L. Brooks then suggested that Marge could play Blanche DuBois

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire 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. "The Simpsons" did an episode, "A Streetcar Named Marge", in which "Streetcar!", a musical version of the play, was featured. Ned Flanders and Marge took the leading roles as Stanley and Blanche, respectively. The Spring 1988 revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre starred Aidan Quinn

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire 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 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

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire as Mitch. Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw of the British gay theater company, Bloolips, and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of the American lesbian theater company, Split Britches, collaborated and performed a gender-bent production of "Belle Reprieve", a twisted adaption of "Streetcar". “This theatrical piece creates a Brechtian,” “epic drama” that relies on the reflective rather than emotional involvement of the audience—a “commentary on the sexual roles and games in Williams’s text.” Blanche was played by Bette Bourne as “man in a dress," Stanley was played by Peggy Shaw as a “butch lesbian,” Mitch was played by Paul Shaw as

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire that once she was married to a young man, Allan Grey, whom she later discovered in a sexual encounter with an older man. Grey later committed suicide when Blanche told him she was disgusted with him. The story touches Mitch, who tells Blanche that they need each other. It seems certain that they will get married. Later on, Stanley repeats gossip to Stella that he has gathered on Blanche, telling her that Blanche was fired from her teaching job for having sex with a student and that she lived at a hotel known for prostitution (the Flamingo). Stella erupts in

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire 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 "The Guardian". In 1995, an opera was adapted and composed by André Previn with a libretto by Philip Littell. It had its premiere at the San Francisco Opera during the 1998–99 season, and featured Renée Fleming as Blanche. A 1952 ballet production with choreography by Valerie Bettis, which Mia Slavenska and Frederic Franklin's Slavenska-Franklin Ballet debuted at Her Majesty's Theatre in Montreal, featured the

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire the Marsalis family, starring Michael Arata and Shelly Poncy. In 2009, the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, where the original pre-Broadway tryout occurred, began a production of the play for its 200th anniversary season. The 2005 Broadway revival was directed by Edward Hall and produced by The Roundabout Theater Company. It starred 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

neg: A Streetcar Named Desire abusive husband after such violence. The next morning, Blanche rushes to Stella and describes Stanley as a subhuman animal, though Stella assures Blanche that she and Stanley are fine. Stanley overhears the conversation but keeps silent. When Stanley comes in, Stella hugs and kisses him, letting Blanche know that her low opinion of Stanley does not matter. As the weeks pass, Blanche and Stanley continue to not get along. Blanche has hope in Mitch, and tells Stella that she wants to go away with him and not be anyone's problem. During a meeting between the two, Blanche confesses to Mitch