Links for 4/14 -- Streetcar

These are a few scenes from the 1951 movie version with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_lToyPAUyE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVxmk9pq2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxGN29njs3Q&feature=related

Let's look at a more recent version.  In 1995, Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange played Stanley and Blanche for a TV movie of Streetcar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyxPgXyat1Y

Last summer the Guthrie Theater staged Streetcar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljehZJhvbc

In 2005, Natasha Richardson played Blanche:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cLKFynWwg

Cate Blanchett has also played Blanche, but this clip is of her interview with Charlie Rose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gztnc_60h4k

Her picture is below.  Her production was a traveling one, and this was taken at the Kennedy Center production.