Blanche DuBois

"Soft people have got to shimmer and glow- they've got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a- paper lantern over the light..."

[timotaychalamet]

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) dir. Elia Kazan

[halfsavages-deactivated20200621]

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

[mizworldofrandom]

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

[the-girl-who-didnt-make-anysense]

You’d never suspect there was a struggle for breath and bleeding. You didn’t dream, but I saw! Saw! Saw!

[gillianandersons]

[quotemadness]

“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”

— Tennessee Williams

[emily-krawczyk]

Blanche Dubois would love bath bombs.

[paperlantern]

Probably

[prettygirlsandbourbon]

Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams, 1948.

[daynascully]

“There’s nothing but imagination and lies and conceit and tricks! And look at yourself! Take a look at yourself in that worn out Mardi Gras outfit, rented for fifty cents from some rag picker, and with that crazy crown on! WHAT QUEEN DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?“ -A Streetcar Named Desire

[paperlantern]

"To be free is to have achieved your life."--Tennessee Williams

[vulpikula]

[scarliestralls]

[weirdbutinareallycuteway-deacti]

Me

[thehauntingofjulia]

I just looked this up and it turned out it was about a production of “cat on a hot tin roof”, a play which famously features a closeted gay lead character. a member of the audience was catcalling female actresses and shouting homophobic abuse when actor john lacy, who played the character big daddy, paused his performance and called him out. the heckler replied “what are you going to do about it?” to which lacy responded by leaping down into the audience and knocking him to the ground.

[goldenaltar]

#its what tennessee williams would have wanted

[gillianaofficial]

Because it’s difficult to become something you can’t see. 

Directing The Departure for @youngvictheatre & @guardian in 2014. 

#femalefilmmakerfriday

[paperlantern]

In January of 1976, Meryl Streep appeared in Tennessee Williams's 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON under the direction of Arvin Brown. Her performance earned her a Tony nomination

[elance76-blog]

“A woman’s charm is 50% illusion” - Blanche Dubois

[wehadfacesthen]

Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  (Richard Brooks, 1958)

[paperlantern]

Jessica Lange is Blanche, Diane Lane is Stella, and Alec Baldwin is Stanley in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, presented on CBS in October, 1995.