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 apartment building.
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 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, 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".
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Sarah Sokolovic
Sarah Sokolovic is an American film, television, and theatre actress, who starred in" Homeland" as Laura Sutton and has a recurring role on" Big Little Lies".
She has performed in several plays including" The Shaggs: Philosophy of the WorldDetroit", and" A Streetcar Named Desire".
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan( born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek- American director, producer, writer and actor, described by" The New York Times" as" one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
He was born in Constantinople( now Istanbul, Turkey), to Cappadocian Greek parents.
After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theatre in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947.
With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced" Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg.
Kazan acted in a few films, including" City for Conquest"( 1940).
Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins.
He directed a string of successful films, including" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951)," On the Waterfront"( 1954), and" East of Eden"( 1955).
During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director, three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes.
He also received an Honorary Oscar.
His films were concerned with personal or social issues of special concern to him.
Kazan writes," I do n't move unless I have some empathy with the basic theme."
His first such" issue" film was" Gentleman's Agreement"( 1947), with Gregory Peck, which dealt with anti-Semitism in America.
It received 8 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, including Kazan's first for Best Director.
It was followed by" Pinky", one of the first films in mainstream Hollywood to address racial prejudice against African Americans.
In 1954, he directed" On the Waterfront", a film about union corruption on the New York harbor waterfront.
" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role.
In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's" East of Eden", which introduced James Dean to movie audiences.
A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a witness before the House Committee on Un- American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which brought him strong negative reactions from many liberal friends and colleagues.
His testimony helped end the careers of former acting colleagues Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, along with the work of playwright Clifford Odets.
The two men had made a pact to name each other in front of the committee.
Kazan later justified his act by saying he took" only the more tolerable of two alternatives that were either way painful and wrong."
Nearly a half- century later, his anti-Communist testimony continued to cause controversy.
When Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999, dozens of actors chose not to applaud as 250 demonstrators picketed the event.
Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and 1960s with his provocative, issue- driven subjects.
Director Stanley Kubrick called him," without question, the best director we have in America,[ and] capable of performing miracles with the actors he uses."
Film author Ian Freer concludes that even" if his achievements are tainted by political controversy, the debt Hollywood —and actors everywhere—owes him is enormous."
In 2010, Martin Scorsese co- directed the documentary film" A Letter to Elia" as a personal tribute to Kazan.
Sam Newfield
Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld,( December 6, 1899- November 10, 1964), also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, one of the most prolific in American film history —he is credited with directing over 250 feature films in a career which began during the silent era and ended in 1958.
In addition to his staggering feature output, he also directed one- and two- reel comedy shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for.
Because of this massive output—he would sometimes direct more than 20 films in a single year —he has been called the most prolific director of the sound era.
Many of Newfield's films were made for PRC Pictures.
This was a film production company headed by his brother Sigmund Neufeld.
The films PRC produced were low- budget productions, the majority being westerns, with an occasional horror film or crime drama.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Oscar Saul
Oscar Saul( December 26, 1912, New York City – May 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was an American writer.
Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s.
His best- known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams'" A Streetcar Named Desire".
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
Durango Valley Raiders
Durango Valley Raiders is a 1938 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by George H. Plympton.
The film stars Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Karl Hackett, Ted Adams, Forrest Taylor and Steve Clark.
The film was released on August 22, 1938, by Republic Pictures.
Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter( born Janet Cole; November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress.
She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film" A Streetcar Named Desire".
Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long- running soap opera" The Edge of Night".
She also portrayed the character of chimpanzee Zira in the first three installments of the original film adaptation" Planet of the Apes".

Question: Which film whose director was born first, Durango Valley Raiders or A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 Film)?
Answer: Durango Valley Raiders