This is a great lookingOriginal rolled Vintage WARNER BROS. STUDIOS VideoCassette poster from the1980s, IT IS OVER 40 YEARS OLD measuring 19" x 28" to announce theVERY First release ever of the Warner Bros. all time classic 1951 Academy AwardWinning Film,
A Streetcar Named Desire
Director:Elia Kazan
Based on the play by TennesseeWilliams
Screenplay by Oscar Saul
When she got there she met thebrute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed.
Disturbed Blanche DuBois movesin with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutishbrother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. Set in the French Quarterof New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two, A STREETCAR NAMEDDESIRE is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on adesperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. After being exiledfrom her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, for seducing a seventeen-year-old boyat the school where she taught English, Blanche explains her unexpectedappearance on Stanley and Stellas (Blanches sister) doorstep as nervousexhaustion. This, she claims, is the result of a series of financial calamitieswhich have recently claimed the family plantation, Belle Reve. Suspicious,Stanley points out that "under Louisianas Napoleonic code what belongs tothe wife belongs to the husband." Stanley, a sinewy and brutish man, is asterritorial as a panther. He tells Blanche he doesnt like to be swindled anddemands to see the bill of sale. This encounter defines Stanley and Blanchesrelationship. They are opposing camps and Stella is caught in no-mans-land.But Stanley and Stella are deeply in love. Blanches efforts to impose herselfbetween them only enrages the animal inside Stanley. When Mitch -- acard-playing buddy of Stanleys -- arrives on the scene, Blanche begins to seea way out of her predicament. Mitch, himself alone in the world, reveresBlanche as a beautiful and refined woman. Yet, as rumors of Blanches past inAuriol begin to catch up to her, her circumstances become unbearable.
The entire cast included:
Vivien Leigh...Blanche DuBois
Marlon Brando...StanleyKowalski
Kim Hunter ...Stella Kowalski
Karl Malden...Harold MitchMitchell
Rudy Bond...Steve
Nick Dennis...Pablo Gonzales
Peg Hillias...Eunice
Wright King...A Collector
Richard Garrick...A Doctor
Ann Dere...The Matron
Edna Thomas...The MexicanWoman
Mickey Kuhn...A Sailor
POSTER has NEVER BEEN HUNG butdoes have some light surface wear at the bottom. PLEASE SEE IMAGES.
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MORE INFOON MARLON BRANDO: Marlon Ernest Brando Jr.(April 3,1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor with a career spanning 60 years,during which he wonmany accolades, including twoAcademy Awards for Best Actor, threeBAFTA Awards for Best Foreign Actorand twoGolden Globe Awards for Best Actor —Motion Picture Drama. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influentialactors in 20th-century film.Brando was also anactivistfor many causes, notably thecivilrights movementand variousNative Americanmovements. Having studied withStella Adlerin the 1940s, he is credited withbeing one of the first actors to bring theStanislavskisystem of actingandmethod acting, derived from the Stanislavski system,to mainstream audiences.
Heinitially gained acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actorin a Leading Role for reprising the role ofStanley Kowalskiin the 1951film adaptationofTennesseeWilliamsplayA Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfullyonBroadway.He received further praise, and afirst Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, for his le plus cher performance asTerry MalloyinOn the Waterfront, and his portrayal of the rebelliousmotorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler inThe Wild Oneproved to be a lasting image inpopular culture.Brando received Academy Award nominations forplayingEmiliano ZapatainViva Zapata!(1952);Mark AntonyinJosephL. Mankiewiczs1953filmadaptationofShakespearesJuliusCaesar;and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver inSayonara(1957), an adaptation ofJames A. Micheners 1954 novel.
The 1960ssaw Brandos career take a commercial and critical downturn. He directed andstarred in thecultwesternOne-Eyed Jacks, a critical and commercial flop, afterwhich he delivered a series of notable box-office failures, beginningwithMutiny on the Bounty(1962). After ten years ofunderachieving, he agreed to do ascreen testasVito CorleoneinFrancisFord CoppolasThe Godfather(1972). He got the part andsubsequently won his second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in aperformance critics consider among his greatest. He refused the award due toalleged mistreatment and mis portrayal of Native Americans by Hollywood.TheGodfatherwas one of the most commercially successful films of alltime, and alongside his Oscar-nominated performance inLastTango in Paris, Brando reestablished himself in the ranks of top box-officestars.
After ahiatus in the early 1970s, Brando was generally content with being a highlypaidcharacter actorin supporting roles, such asJor-ElinSuperman(1978), asColonel KurtzinApocalypse Now(1979), and inTheFormula(1980),before taking a nine-year break from film. According to theGuinnessBook of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7million ($16 million ininflation-adjusted dollars) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days workonSuperman.
Brandowas ranked by theAmericanFilm Instituteas thefourth-greatest movie staramong male movie stars whosescreen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of only six actors namedin 1999 byTimemagazine in its list of the100 Most Important People of the CenturyIn this list,Timealsodesignated Brando as the "Actor of the Century".
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