![]() Rather than dwell on academic interpretations of Streetcar, Staggs takes a more personal tack. Blanche DuBois’s last line, ‘I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,’ has become a cliché, but Staggs… argues that the whole play is a seminal work, which still ‘seduces with its disordered exoticism and its power to engulf.’ He has crafted an entertaining behind-the-scenes narrative of both the play and the film-from Williams’s early drafts to the film’s battles with Hollywood censors. ![]() “Tennessee Williams’s 1947 masterpiece took Broadway by storm and made the brooding Marlon Brando a star. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this behind-the-scenes look at a Streetcar Named Desire and the scandal that made it so popular, signed on the title page by author Sam Staggs. ![]() The Scandalous Story of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” New York: St. FIRST EDITION OF WHEN BLANCHE MET BRANDO, SIGNED BY AUTHOR SAM STAGGS ![]()
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