"A Streetcar Named Desire" to be screened September 26, 2014

Oscar-winning film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams

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Still from 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire"

ALBANY, NY (09/10/2014)(readMedia)-- A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (United States, 1951, 122 minutes, b/w, directed by Elia Kazan) will be shown on Friday, September 26, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute as part of its Classic Film Series, the screening is free and open to the public.

A fading Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, moves into a crowded New Orleans apartment with her sister and her brutish brother-in-law in this Oscar-winning film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. The American Film Institute named it one of the 100 best American films of all time. Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter each won Oscars for their performances. Marlon Brando received a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

The film is being screened in conjunction with an appearance by theatre critic John Lahr, author of a new biography of playwright Tennessee Williams, on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Lahr will read from and discuss the biography Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (2014) at 8:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, on the UAlbany uptown campus. Earlier that day at 4:15 p.m. Lahr will hold a informal seminar in the same location.

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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