The inclusion of such lighthearted information balances Staggs's absorbing account of the creation of and continued fascination with this American classic.
style quiz on actresses who've played Blanche. He also incorporates playful trivia, such as a Jeopardy! And he doesn't stint on tabloid juice, either, noting that both Vivien Leigh and Kazan had voracious sexual appetites.
The result is a comprehensive minihistory of 20th-century American stage and screen. He profiles everyone from director Elia Kazan to Jessica Tandy (Broadway's Blanche) as well as backstage personnel. Rather than dwell on academic interpretations of Streetcar ) 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. Blanche DuBois's last line, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," has become a cliché, but Staggs ( All About All About Eve Tennessee Williams's 1947 masterpiece took Broadway by storm and made the brooding Marlon Brando a star. 16, 2012 Movie biographer Staggs ( Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life, 2009, etc.) lively account of how a jowly plain Jane from Iowa became the 20th century’s most celebrated party giver for the rich, the royal, and the famous.
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