Elia Kazan reunited much of the all-star cast from his hit Broadway production for this screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s famous play. Vivien Leigh brilliantly evokes the neurotic fragility of Blanche Dubois, a fallen southern belle whose pretences to gentility are put to the test when she comes to New Orleans to visit her sister, Stella (Hunter), and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley (Brando). Kazan melds gritty, cinematic realism with the stylized dialogue of the theater in this classic that made Brando a star and garnered Oscars for Leigh, Hunter, and Karl Malden.