April 2026

Uninhibited Camera for A Streetcar Named Desire

This article originally appeared in American Cinematographer's October 1951 issue. For full access to our archive, which includes more than 105 years of essential motion-picture production coverage, become a subscriber today. A Streetcar Named Desire, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the coveted New York Drama Critics Award, scored as one of the most powerful dramas in modern theatrical history when it electrified Broadway a few seasons ago. It was impossible to imagine at that time that this play could ever be translated into the language of the screen with its basic power undissipated. But Warner Brothers have accomplished the impossible by bringing the vehicle to the screen with its original honesty and force intact. If anything, the...more