TY - BOOK AU - Williams, Tennessee, TI - A Streetcar named Desire SN - 451167783 PY - 1974/// CY - New York PB - Signet Book N2 - a Street car named desire s one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche Dubois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who predipitated Blanche's tragedy ER -