Word: brando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play could stand more discipline; along with an absence of formulas there is sometimes an absence of form. And it could stand more variety: only the clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...
Candida's scalawag father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) was often amusing; the prissy Prossy (Mildred Natwick) almost always was. But though Marlon Brando got a measure of individuality into Marchbanks, Shaw's soft-shelled poet seemed once again a wight that never was on sea or land. And Parson Morell (Wesley Addy) was not the man for whom Prossy would have pined or Candida gladly drudged. Candida's choosing him over Marchbanks seemed largely, last week, like choosing the lesser of two evils...