DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: On this day in 1947, an audience at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theatre      witnessed the Broadway premiere of what would later be voted the best      play of the 20th century.</s>Mr. MARLON BRANDO: (As Stanley Kowalski) Hi, Blanche.</s>Ms. JESSICA TANDY: (As Blanche DuBois) Here I am, all freshly bathed and      scented and feeling like a brand-new human being.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Jessica Tandy was Blanche DuBois, the fallen and fading      Southern bell created by Tennessee Williams in "A Streetcar Names      Desire."  Blanche travels to New Orleans to visit her sister, Stella, and      her brute husband, Stanley Kowalski, played by the young and incredibly      hot Marlon Brando.</s>Mr. MARLON BRANDO: (As Kowalski) Blanche, in the state of Louisiana, there's      such a thing as a Napoleonic Code, say, according to whatever belongs to      my wife is also mine and vice versa.</s>Ms. JESSICA TANDY: (As DuBois) Oh, cards on the table.  Oh, that suits me.  I      know I fib a good deal.  After all, a woman's charm is 50 percent      illusion.  When I think it's important, I tell the truth, and this is the      truth:  I haven't cheated my sister nor you or anyone else as long as      I've lived.</s>Mr. MARLON BRANDO: (As Kowalski) All right.  Where are the papers, in your      trunk?</s>Ms. JESSICA TANDY: (As DuBois) Everything I own is in that trunk.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: After the show that opening night 58 years ago, theatergoers      were stunned.  After a moment of shocked silence, they clapped for 30      minutes.
Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy took to the stage 58 years ago for the Broadway premier of A Streetcar Named Desire. We hear the two actors in an excerpt from the legendary 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' play.