{"id":3605994,"date":"2014-11-30T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/time.com\/?p=3605994"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:17:40","slug":"brando-takes-broadway-life-on-the-set-of-a-streetcar-named-desire-in-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/arts-entertainment\/brando-takes-broadway-life-on-the-set-of-a-streetcar-named-desire-in-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Brando Takes Broadway: LIFE on the Set of &#8216;A Streetcar Named Desire&#8217; in 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Arthur Miller&#8217;s <em>Death of a Salesman<\/em>, Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s <em>Long Day&#8217;s Journey Into Night<\/em> and a few other notable modern works, Tennessee Williams&#8217; 1947 masterpiece, <em>A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em>, helped shape the look and feel of American drama for decades to come. But nothing that occurred during the play&#8217;s original Broadway run eclipsed the emergence of a young Marlon Brando as a major creative force and a star to be reckoned with. Decades after the original Broadway premiere on Dec. 3, 1947, LIFE.com presents photos &#8212; some of which never ran in the magazine &#8212; taken during rehearsals by photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/eliot-elisofon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eliot Elisofon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, the 1947 production remains a touchstone in American drama, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics&#8217; Circle award for the year&#8217;s best play, as well as a Best Actress Tony for Tandy for her seminal performance as the unstable, alcoholic, melodramatic Southern belle, Blanche DuBois. Despite all the accolades it earned, however, the 24-year Brando&#8217;s galvanizing turn as Stanley Kowalski &#8212; in both the play and in Kazan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u9YgJjSCT08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1951 film adaptation<\/a> &#8212; was what really seared the production into the pop-culture consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Gritty, sensual, violent and bleak, Williams&#8217; great play remains one of a handful of utterly indispensable 20th-century American dramatic works, while the sensual ferocity of Brando&#8217;s Stanley can still shock, seven decades after he first unleashed the character on a rapt theatergoing public.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3605996\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3605996 desc=\"Kim Hunter (left), Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and others in rehearsal for the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire.\" caption=\"Kim Hunter (left), Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and others in rehearsal for the original production of &#039;A Streetcar Named Desire.&#039; (Eliot Elisofon \/ The LIFE Picture Collection)\" title=\"A Streetcar Named Desire 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-01-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Hunter (left), Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and others in rehearsal for the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Streetcar Named Desire 1947<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Kim Hunter (left), Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and others in rehearsal for the original production of &#8216;A Streetcar Named Desire.&#8217; (Eliot Elisofon \/ The LIFE Picture Collection)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3605998\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3605998 desc=\"Caption from LIFE. Blanche DuBois, is a Southern girl who lives in a make-believe world of grandeur, preens in faded evening gowns and makes herself out to be sweet, genteel and deliccate. She comes to visit her sister Stella and brother-in-law in the French quarter of New Orleans.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon \/The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Jessica Tandy as Blanche Dubois  in Tennessee Williams&#039; &quot;A Streetcar Named Desire,&quot; 1947.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-02-810x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Blanche DuBois, is a Southern girl who lives in a make-believe world of grandeur, preens in faded evening gowns and makes herself out to be sweet, genteel and deliccate. She comes to visit her sister Stella and brother-in-law in the French quarter of New Orleans.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Jessica Tandy as Blanche Dubois  in Tennessee Williams&#8217; &#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire,&#8221; 1947.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon \/The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3605999\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3605999 desc=\"Caption from LIFE. Her sister and her sister&#039;s Polish husand Stanley (Marlon Brando), after a fierce querrel brought about by Blanche&#039;s endless meddling, are reconciled in a touching love scene on stairway of their ramshackle little flat.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon \/ The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter in &quot;A Streetcar Named Desire,&quot; 1947.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-03-812x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, 1947\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter in &#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire,&#8221; 1947.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon \/ The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3606000\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3606000 desc=\"Caption from LIFE. Blanche and Stella (Kim Hunter) undress in a bedroom which is divided from living room by partly closed curtains. Though Blanche complains about the noisy poker party which is going on in the adjoining room, she purposely stands so she can be seen by Mitch (Karl Malden, third from left).\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A Streetcar Named Desire 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-04-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Blanche and Stella (Kim Hunter) undress in a bedroom which is divided from living room by partly closed curtains. Though Blanche complains about the noisy poker party which is going on in the adjoining room, she purposely stands so she can be seen by Mitch (Karl Malden, third from left).\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Streetcar Named Desire 1947<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3606001\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3606001 desc=\"Caption from LIFE. Acting the coquette, Blanch curtsies to Mitch, whom she has lured into courting her. Mitch proposes marriage but jilts her when he discovers in her home town Blanche is practically a prostitute.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A Streetcar Named Desire 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-05-799x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden, 1947\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Streetcar Named Desire 1947<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3606002\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3606002 desc=\"Caption from LIFE. &quot;We&#039;ve had this date with each other from the beginning,&quot; says Stanley to Blanche. For weeks she has been insulting and trying to attract him. When his wife is in the hospital having a baby, Blanche hysterically attacks him with the top of a broken bottle. In a half-drunken fury, Stanley rapes her.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A Streetcar Named Desire 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-06-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, 1947\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Streetcar Named Desire 1947<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3606003\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3606003 desc=\"Caption from LIFE. The drama ends when Blanche, clinging to her pitiful delusion that she is a grand lady, is pronounced insane, is led away by asylum attendants. Her sister and husband can now resume their happiness, proving Williams&#039; thesis that healthy life can go on only after it is rid of unwholesome influence.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A Streetcar Named Desire 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-07-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Tandy, Streetcar Named Desire, 1947\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Streetcar Named Desire 1947<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3606004\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3606004 desc=\"Jessica Tandy (center) playing in the Broadway production A Streetcar Named Desire.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A Streetcar Named Desire 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-08-801x1024.jpg\" alt=\"00522466.JPG\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Streetcar Named Desire 1947<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3606005\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3606005 desc=\"Playwright Tennessee Williams sitting on theater set of his play, A Streetcar Named Desire.\" caption=\"Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Tennessee Williams on the set of Streetcar Named Desire\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2014\/11\/141125-streetcar-named-desire-09-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Williams on the set of Streetcar Named Desire\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Tennessee Williams on the set of Streetcar Named Desire<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Eliot Elisofon The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of the Broadway premier of &#8216;A Streetcar Named Desire,&#8217; 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