Which 1951 film adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play stars Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh?

The 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh is A Streetcar Named Desire. Elia Kazan directed the film, which follows Blanche DuBois as she seeks refuge with her sister Stella and confronts Stella’s volatile husband, Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans.

The movie was adapted from Williams’s 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden reprised their Broadway roles, while Leigh took the role of Blanche after playing her in the London production. Jessica Tandy, who originated Blanche on Broadway, did not appear in the film.

A Streetcar Named Desire became a landmark of postwar American cinema and helped make Brando a major star. Leigh won Best Actress at the Academy Awards, while Karl Malden and Kim Hunter also won for supporting performances. The film’s famous lines include “Stella!” and “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”