"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"
"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"
"in New York City on September 11, 2002, of a heart attack at the age of 79. She was survived by both her daughter and her son. She was cremated and her ashes given to her daughter. 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"
"several weeks on the road, they reached Boston, by which time Bankhead was ready to dismiss him. This proved to be one of the greatest blessings of his career, as it freed him up to play the role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", directed by Elia Kazan. Bankhead had recommended him to Williams for the role of Stanley, thinking he was perfect for the part. Pierpont writes that John Garfield was first choice for the role, but ""made impossible demands."" It was Kazan's decision to fall back on the far less experienced (and"
"Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Grace Lind, who was trained as a concert pianist, and Donald Cole, a refrigeration engineer. She attended Miami Beach High School. Hunter's first film role was in the 1943 film noir, ""The Seventh Victim"", and her first starring role was in the 1946 British fantasy film ""A Matter of Life and Death"". In 1947, she was Stella Kowalski on stage in the original Broadway production of ""A Streetcar Named Desire."" Recreating that role in the 1951 film version, Hunter won both the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actress. In the interim, however,"
"A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano, Vivien Leigh, Renee Asherson and Bernard Braden and was directed by Laurence Olivier. The drama ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" is often regarded as among the"
"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"". Hunter was born in"
"Beverly D'Angelo Beverly Heather D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress and singer, who starred as Ellen Griswold in the ""National Lampoon's Vacation"" films (1983–2015). She has appeared in over 60 films and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role as Patsy Cline in ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" (1980), and for an Emmy Award for her role as Stella Kowalski in the TV film ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1984). Her other film roles include Sheila Franklin in ""Hair"" (1979) and Doris Vinyard in ""American History X"" (1998). D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of"
"for outstanding major Broadway debut. Clare Higgins Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an English actress. Her film appearances include ""Hellraiser"" (1987), """" (1988), ""Small Faces"" (1996) and ""The Golden Compass"" (2007). A six-time Olivier Award nominee for her work in the theatre, Higgins received her first nomination in 1984 for her role as Stella Kowalski in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". She has since won the Olivier Award for Best Actress three times; for ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" in 1995, ""Vincent in Brixton"" in 2003 and ""Hecuba"" in 2005. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in"
"Clare Higgins Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an English actress. Her film appearances include ""Hellraiser"" (1987), """" (1988), ""Small Faces"" (1996) and ""The Golden Compass"" (2007). A six-time Olivier Award nominee for her work in the theatre, Higgins received her first nomination in 1984 for her role as Stella Kowalski in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". She has since won the Olivier Award for Best Actress three times; for ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" in 1995, ""Vincent in Brixton"" in 2003 and ""Hecuba"" in 2005. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in ""Vincent in Brixton"", receiving a"
"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 nominated for several other awards including four"
"Emmy Awards. 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 nominated for several other awards"
"by his twenty-fourth 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 C.C.'s worsening alcoholism and abusive temper (part of his ear was bitten off in a poker game fight). They never divorced. In 1936, Williams enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis; while there, he wrote the play ""Me, Vashya"" (1937). In the autumn of 1937, he transferred to the University of Iowa,"
"group. She made her Broadway debut soon after her 22nd birthday, appearing in ""The First Crocus"" at the Longacre Theatre on January 2, 1942; the play closed after five performances. Her next appearance on Broadway came two months after her younger brother began his role as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". Even before that, however, in the fall of 1947, both Jocelyn and Marlon would become two of the first fifty or so members of New York's newly formed Actors Studio, Jocelyn studying with Elia Kazan, Marlon with Robert Lewis. On February 18, 1948, she appeared"
"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 care about each other, but broke up because he wanted kids and she didn't. Kowalski's family includes his parents Damian and Barbara, and a brother who is only referenced on the show's official webpage and never made an appearance on the show. Kowalski was brought into the series at the start of Season"
"titular role in ""Anna Christie"", and Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Stella Kowalski in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". She has won a Golden Globe for her role in ""The Affair"" and received nominations for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in ""Jane Eyre"". Wilson was born in Ashford, Middlesex, the daughter of Mary, a probation officer, and Nigel Wilson, an investment banker. She has three older brothers Toby, Sam (a BBC journalist) and Matthew, and is the granddaughter of novelist and"
"set in motion when Helene Shaw (Susan Sarandon), a woman intending to stay in town for only eight weeks, is persuaded into auditioning for the role of Stella, opposite Harry's Stanley Kowalski in a production of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". Ignoring warnings of Harry's introverted personality, Helene falls in love with Harry's ""Stanley"" persona, and mistakes his cluelessness and shyness for rejection. This results in a clumsy and uneven performance on the second night of the play, but Helene bounces back in time for closing night, due to an inspiration: her closing-night gift to Harry is a copy of ""Romeo"
"30, 1947, four days before the opening of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". Another version of this essay, entitled ""The Catastrophe of Success"", is sometimes used as an introduction to ""The Glass Menagerie"". On October 1, 2009, Swann Galleries auctioned an unusually fine copy of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", New York, 1947, signed by Williams and dated 1976 for $9,000, a record price for a signed copy of the play. A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on"
"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"
"also based on her. Amanda Wingfield in ""The Glass Menagerie"" was generally 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. These two plays were later adapted as highly successful films, by noted directors Elia Kazan (""Streetcar""), with whom Williams developed a very close artistic"
"Women."" Ryan was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play twice: in 2000, for her portrayal of Sonya Alexandrovna in ""Uncle Vanya"", and in 2005, for her performance as Stella Kowalski opposite John C. Reilly in ""A Streetcar Named Desire."" Ryan received some of the best reviews of her career for her leading role in the Roundabout Theater Company's 2016 production of ""Love, Love, Love"". Ben Brantley of ""The New York Times"" praised her ""smashing comic performance,"" ""The Hollywood Reporter"" called her work ""emotionally vital,"" and ""The Associated Press"" raved that ""Ryan"
"won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television, where the film was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Williams. 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,"
"Storz House in Omaha includes the ""Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom"" on the top floor, which is the only memorial to the siblings' roots in Omaha. Adele Astaire Adele, Lady Charles Cavendish (born Adele Marie Austerlitz; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981), was an American dancer, stage actress and singer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister, and his partner in a 27-year career in vaudeville and theater, beginning when he was five and she was eight. Adele Marie Austerlitz was born on September 10, 1896, in Omaha, Nebraska. Her parents were Johanna ""Ann"" Geilus, an American-born Lutheran of German"
"proudly take her place alongside the memorable Amandas in this critic's experience: Helen Hayes, Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris, and Maureen Stapleton."" In addition to her role as Amanda Wingfield, Barrie-Wilson has performed as Yelena (opposite Hal Holbrook and Robert Foxworth) in ""Uncle Vanya"", Lady Croom in ""Arcadia"", May in ""Fool for Love"", Masha in ""Three Sisters"", Andromache in ""The Greeks"", Tourvel in ""Les Liaisons Dangereuses"", and Mrs. Gibbs in ""Our Town"". She has also performed several times in her two favorite plays: as Roxane in Rostand's ""Cyrano de Bergerac"", and Stella in Tennessee Williams' ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". Barrie-Wilson has"
"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 four awards, for cinematography, film editing, sound, and art direction. In 1985 Ann-Margret"
"a nervous breakdown. Weeks later, Stella has Blanche committed to a mental institution at Stanley's insistence. In the original play, Stella refuses to believe Blanche and stays with Stanley; in the 1951 film adaptation and many stagings of the play, however, she leaves him and takes their child. He was most famously portrayed by Marlon Brando in the play's initial Broadway performance as well as the 1951 film adaptation. Since then he has been played by Treat Williams in the 1984 TV movie and by Alec Baldwin in the 1995 TV movie. Stanley Kowalski Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character"
"The Night of the Iguana. In addition to his film history, Arata has extensive theater experience, including acting and producing the works of Tennessee Williams, Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and William Shakespeare. In 1997, American Theatre Magazine hailed Arata's performance of Stanley Kowalski in the 50th anniversary production of Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire as ""unhinged and electrifying"", and reviewer Dalt Wonk called the performance ""a Stanley for our times"". Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Arata produced Shakespeare in City Park in New Orleans, the city's only outdoor theater, as well as several productions in conjunction with the Tennessee"
"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 Gonzales. However, he graduated from supporting actor and understudy to star opposite the director's wife, Vivien Leigh, with a sudden unplanned performance when a co-star, playing the role of Mitch, came down with a"
"of Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1956). Williams had wanted Bankhead for the original production, but she turned it down. Tennessee Williams himself (they were close friends) called her Blanche ""the worst I have seen"", accusing her of ruining the role to appease her fans who wanted camp. She agreed with this verdict, and made an effort to conquer the audience which her own legend had drawn about her, giving a performance two weeks later of which he remarked: ""I'm not ashamed to say that I shed tears almost all the way through and that when the play was"
"received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her acclaimed performance as Stella Kowalski in a 1988 revival of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". She returned to Broadway in 2008 with a revival of ""The Country Girl"", leading to a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Play. In 2011, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing a troubled single mother in ""Good People"" (2011). On television, McDormand played the titular protagonist in the HBO miniseries ""Olive Kitteridge"" (2014), which won her the Primetime Emmy Award for"
"Kjersti Holmen Kjersti Holmen (born 8 February 1956) is a Norwegian actress. She was born on Nøtterøy, and later moved to Alnabru, where she grew up with her parents and two sisters. She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1980, and has been employed at the National Theatre since 1981 – permanently since 1992. There she has had roles such as ""Eliza Doolittle"" in George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"", the title role in Henrik Ibsens ""Hedda Gabler"" and ""Blanche"" in Tennessee Williams' ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". Holmen is also a well-known television and film actress, and had her"
"in years"". Mick LaSalle, writing for the ""San Francisco Chronicle"", wrote that ""Blanchett in ""Blue Jasmine"" is beyond brilliant, beyond analysis. This is jaw-dropping work, what we go to the movies hoping to see, and we do. Every few years."" Andrew Dice Clay's performance was also critically praised in the film. Some critics have argued the film is Allen's response or tribute to the Tennessee Williams play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", as it shares a very similar plot and characters. It also features cast members who have previously been associated with the play: Baldwin played the role of Stanley Kowalski"
"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"