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...naked back proclaims: "Not Suitable for Children." In the current opinion of the Catholic Legion of Decency, "Streetcar" is suitable for a adults: but they didn't always think that way. The story of how they came to change their mind, told in last Sunday's Time by Elia Kazan, is an interesting case study of the methods of informal censorship...
Where the film departs from the stage production is in the emphasis of the direction. Perhaps to make up for the confinement of the setting, Elia Kazan set his cameramen and actors to highlight every eccentricity in the cast. Brando responded to this kind of direction by developing an overgrowth of quirks, brilliantly freakish, that dominate every scene in which he enters. As he appears before fastidious Blanche for the first time, the camera-eye stares fascinated at a huge sweat-stain on his T-shirt, just above the area where he is scratching himself; for half a minute...
...cinema version reunites the play's author, who worked on the script, its director, Elia Kazan, and most of the original principals, including Marlon (The Men) Brando as the tormented heroine's brutish brother-in-law, Kim Hunter as her well-balanced sister and Karl Maiden as her mama's-boy suitor. Even in casting Vivien Leigh in the leading role, thus brightening the marquee with a star more familiar to moviegoers than Broadway's Jessica Tandy, Director Kazan has chosen an actress who grew into the part in the London production of the play...
...Phillip Elia Areeda, Economics; Albert Ira Borowitz, Classics; Martin Boykan, Music; Irwin Merton Braverman, Biology; Nathaniel Phillips Carleton, Physics; Gary Felsenfeld, Biochemical Sciences; Leonard Jay Friedman, Chemistry; Charles Frederick Gallagher, Far Eastern Languages; De Witt Stettin Goodman, Biochemical Sciences; Richard Woodward Hulbert, History; Jules Alfred Kernen, Chemistry (1950); Howard Joseph Laster, Physics; Paul Cocil Martin, Physics (1952); Robert Kenyon Nesbet, Physics; Anthony Gervin Oettinger, Engineering Sciences; David Dodd Perkins, English; John Chapman Pittenger, History; Archibald Campbell Spencer, English; Donald Theodore Trautman, Economics; and Ariel Charle Zomach, Physics...
Miller's drama is one of constant transition, and a great deal of the success of these progressions depends on the supporting cast. In every case the transitions were effortless and inevitable--a fine tribute to the direction of Elia Kazan, the acting of the company, and the technical excellence of Miller's script. Jo Mielziner's setting and lighting play an integral part in the action...