On December 3, 1947, Marlon Brando’s famous cry of “STELLA!”
first booms across a Broadway stage, electrifying the audience
at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre during the first-ever performance
of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed
plays of the twentieth century and Williams’s most popular work. 

The 23-year-old Brando played the rough, working-class Polish-
American Stanley Kowalski, and his violent clash with Blanche
DuBois (played on Broadway by Jessica Tandy),

Jessica Tandy with Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named
Desire.

Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando.

     
From Act Three, Scene Five.