Episode 175: A Streetcar Named Desire

ABOUT THE EPISODE:

The film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is wildly famous for Marlon Brando in a wet t-shirt, but the film is largely the very sad story of a deeply wounded and traumatized woman, played by Vivien Leigh, who only gets further wounded and traumatized during the movie. It’s considered a classic, but is it good enough to justify the emotional toll it exacts from its audience?

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1951 (Nominated)

Additional audio from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

(Explicit language, as always)