Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by the
American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered
on Broadway in February 10, 1949, running for 742
performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s
Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams,
and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling
salesman who is despondent with his life and appears to
be slipping into senility. The play addresses a variety of
themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth,
and infidelity. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and
Tony Award for Best Play. It is considered by some critics
to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.

Arthur Asher Miller
(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)

Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the 1949
Tony Award-winning production of "Death of
a Salesman."

Camille Bohannon

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. 
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