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Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize

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Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski stand close together in an emotional scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.

Hunter, Kim; Brando, Marlon: A Streetcar Named Desire

Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire

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