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.

                                                

1962

Frances Hussey Sternhagen
(January 13, 1930 – November 27, 2023 at age 93)

 
Sternhagen was a popular character actress who
appeared on– and off-Broadway, in movies, and
on television for over six decades. She received
numerous accolades including two Tony Awards,
a Drama Desk Award, a Saturn Award, as well as
nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

She gained prominence and Primetime Emmy
Award nominations for her recurring roles as
Esther Clavin in the NBC sitcom Cheers
(1986–1993).

Clark Gable and  Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh ( born Vivian Mary Hartley)
(5 November 1913 – 8 July 19)

British actress Vivien Leigh won the Academy Award 
for Best Actress twice, for her performances as
Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and  
Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar
Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on
stage in London’s West End in 1949.

She also won a Tony Award for her work in the
Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963).

Although her career had periods of inactivity, in
1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as
the 16th-greatest female movie star of classic
Hollywood cinema. 
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

1965

(Fox News) – Iconic and celebrated American composer Cole
Porter was born on this day in history, June 9, 1891, into a
prestigious family in Peru, Indiana. 

His mother, Kate Cole Porter, was the daughter of wealthy
businessman J.O. Cole — and due to his upbringing, young
Cole Porter enjoyed a privileged childhood, according to
the Indiana Historical Society.

At the age of 6, Porter started playing both the violin and
piano — and became quite good at both instruments.  

Harry Belafonte ( Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.)
(March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023)

Belafonte was a Jamaican-American singer, actor and activist,
who popularized calypso music with international audiences
in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the
first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O
(The Banana Boat Song)".