Year in Film: 1937

  • Awful Truth, The
  • Captains Courageous
  • Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)
  • Life of Emile Zola, The
  • Make Way for Tomorrow
  • Pepe le Moko
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Song at Midnight (Ye Ban Ge Sheng)
  • Stella Dallas

Year in Film: 1936

  • Anything Goes
  • Camille
  • Day in the Country, A (Partie de campagne)
  • Dodsworth
  • Modern Times
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • My Man Godfrey
  • Sabotage Story of a Cheat, The (Le roman d’un tricheur)
  • Swing Time
  • Things to Come

Year in Film: 1933

  • 42nd Street
  • Bitter Tea of General Yen, The
  • Duck Soup
  • Footlight Parade
  • Gold Diggers of 1933
  • King Kong
  • Land Without Bread (Las hurdes)
  • Queen Christina
  • She Done Him Wrong
  • Sons of the Desert
  • Zero for Conduct (Zero de conduite)

Year in Film: 1932

  • Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauve des eaux)
  • Freaks
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • Love Me Tonight
  • Me and My Gal
  • Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
  • Shanghai Express
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • Vampyr (The Vampire)

Year in Film: Silent Era

  1. L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat [Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat ] 1895
  2. Trip to the Moon, A (La voyage dans la lune) 1902
  3. Great Train Robbery, The 1903
  4. Birth of a Nation, The 1915
  5. Les Vampires (The Vampires) 1915
  6. Intolerance 1916
  7. Broken Blossoms 1919
  8. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari) 1920
  9. Way Down East 1920
  10. Within Our Gates 1920
  11. Orphans of the Storm 1921
  12. Phantom Carriage, The (Korkarlen) 1921
  13. Dr. Mabuse Parts 1 and 2 (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler) 1922
  14. Foolish Wives 1922
  15. Nanook of the North 1922
  16. Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) 1922
  17. Smiling Madame Beudet, The (La souriante Madame Beudet) 1922
  18. Haxan 1923
  19. Our Hospitality 1923
  20. Wheel, The (La roue) 1923
  21. Sherlock, Jr. 1924
  22. Greed 1924
  23. Great White Silence, The 1924
  24. Last Laugh, The (Der Letzte Mann) 1924
  25. Strike (Stachka) 1924
  26. Thief of Bagdad, The 1924
  27. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) 1925
  28. Big Parade, The 1925
  29. Eagle, The 1925
  30. Gold Rush, The 1925
  31. Phantom of the Opera, The 1925
  32. Seven Chances 1925
  33. Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) 1926
  34. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
  35. Metropolis 1927
  36. General, The 1927
  37. Jazz Singer, The 1927
  38. Kid Brother, The 1927
  39. Napoleon 1927
  40. October (Oktyabr) (October: Ten Days That Shook the World) 1927
  41. Unknown, The 1927
  42. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (La passion de Jeanne d’Arc) 1928
  43. Crowd, The 1928
  44. Docks of New York, The 1928
  45. Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
  46. Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) 1928
  47. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) 1928
  48. Man with the Movie Camera, The (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) 1929
  49. Blackmail 1929
  50. Pandora’s Box (Die Buchse der Pandora) 1929
  51. Throw of Dice, A (Prapancha Pash) 1929

A Streetcar Named Desire – 1951

Streetcar Named Desire poster

Screenplay by Tennessee Williams; Based on his original play: “A Streetcar Named Desire” Tennessee Williams

Adaptation by Oscar Saul

Directed by Elia Kazan

     

Notable Cast

  • Vivien Leigh
  • Marlon Brando
  • Kim Hunter
  • Karl Malden

    

Academy Awards – 9 nominations/ 4 wins

On Lists

  • 1001 Films
  • #47 AFI Top 100 ‘07           
  • #45 AFI Top 100 ‘98
  • #19 AFI 25 Greatest Film Scores
  • 1999 Addition to National Film Registry

www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(1951_film)

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Description

One of Tennessee Williams’ finest, with superb film direction by very same director of the Broadway play Elia Kazan. At the end of her rope, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister Stella (Kim Hunter) and brother-in-law (Marlon Brando) then … complications arise.