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In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic .. Read more

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  Lights to dim on Broadway for Malden

  • 03 Jul 2009

  The lights of New York's theatre district will be dimmed on Thursday night (02Jul09) to honour Oscar winner Karl Malden, who died on Wednesday (01Jul09). The 97 year old had a long affiliation with the Broadway stage - he made his Big Apple stage debut in 1937 and struck up a theatrical partnership with legendary director Elia Kazan, who cast Malden in a host of successful New York shows. Malden starred in more than 20 productions, including Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams'... Read more

  

  Vivien Leigh 'greatest-ever beauty'

  • 07 Sep 2006

  Vivien Leigh has been named as the greatest British beauty of all time in a new poll. The Oscar-winning Gone With the Wind actress, who died in 1967, beat other Hollywood A-listers including Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Christie to the top spot. Leigh is best known for her skirt-swishing role in the American Civil War film, but she also won an Oscar for her other 'southern belle' role as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire opposite screen legend Marlon Brando. Present day style icons Kate... Read more

  

  Best Kisses in Film

  • 11 Feb 2009

  Dooley Wilson was wrong. A kiss is never just a kiss. If it's caught on camera and projected on a screen the size of a house, that's doubly true. The famous American critic Pauline Kael called one of her books "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". If I remember rightly I think she used it in reference to James Bond, but as Kael knew full well, the phrase sums up a big part of why we go to a whole lot of movies. The bang-bang seems to generate more excitement these days – and action films outnumber... Read more

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    In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards ...

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