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Hey, Stella!
- Tom Shepherd
- 2012
- Available
- Black List
- Drama
- 86.9
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Market: Mon, 17 Dec 2012
Producer: Kevin McCormick
AgentPhilip d'Amecourt (WME)
ManagerTom Drumm (Think Tank Management)
ProductionLangley Park Productions
Producer: Kevin McCormick
AgentPhilip d'Amecourt (WME)
ManagerTom Drumm (Think Tank Management)
ProductionLangley Park Productions
The story of how Marlon Brando won the role of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan’s screen adaptation of the Broadway play, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
A director discovers Marlon Brando, a struggling actor and product of a dysfunctional family and an out-of-control libido, and hires him for the role of Stanley Kowalski in the first Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
In order to successfully bring Tennessee William's “A Street Car Named Desire” to Broadway, director Eila Kazan and emerging actor Marlon Brando struggle to find the 'method' that will yield the quintessential Stanley Kowalski.
How a young Marlon Brando won the life-changing role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire and made it his own.
Struggling actor Marlon Brando lands the lead role of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams's broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Film
Film, Biopic, Drama, Period, Coming of Age, Movie Business, Work Related, Love Triangle, Dysfunctional Family
123
R
Medium
M
White / European
25
Attractive
Valentino, Mommy Dearest, Sweet Dreams, Chaplin, Pollock, James Dean (TV)
Primarily within a few months in late 1947, with flashbacks to various periods in Brando's childhood.
Mostly in and around NYC in the forties, including the Barrymore Theater and apartments up and downtown and Harlem. Plus Central Park, The MET, Theater in Boston, Cottage in Provencetown, Palatial estate in Beverly Hills. Dive apartments in Illinois and Pennsylvanian in the thirties.
MARLON BRANDO (24) fights with his co-star and top-billed actor TALLULAH BANKHEAD (40s), for being a drunk, a condition for which he has no tolerance. He leaves Boston and returns to NYC where he strikes it back up with his girlfriend, ELLEN (20s), the daughter of his acting mentor, STELLA ADLER (40s).
Meanwhile, director ELIA KAZAN (40s) negotiates with Broadway producer IRENE SELZNICK (40) about the casting of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (40s) new play, "A Streetcar Named Desire." Kazan and Tennessee want an unknown who will truly embody Stanley Kowalski, the lead in the play. Irene wants an established actor who is assured to sell tickets.
Kazan has an adulterous relationship with CONSTANCE (20s). His wife is peripherally aware, which causes him guilt. In parallel, Brando picks up with BECKY (19), causing a ripple in his relationship with Ellen. Kazan visits Stella to ask about casting ideas for Streetcar and determines, via Ellen's depressed state that Brando might be perfect for the role.
In one of numerous flashbacks to Brando's childhood, we learn the extent of his challenging relationship with his alcoholic mother DOROTHY (30s), and abusive, borderline alcoholic father MARLON SENIOR (30s). It's this pain that Brando eventually uses to find...
Meanwhile, director ELIA KAZAN (40s) negotiates with Broadway producer IRENE SELZNICK (40) about the casting of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (40s) new play, "A Streetcar Named Desire." Kazan and Tennessee want an unknown who will truly embody Stanley Kowalski, the lead in the play. Irene wants an established actor who is assured to sell tickets.
Kazan has an adulterous relationship with CONSTANCE (20s). His wife is peripherally aware, which causes him guilt. In parallel, Brando picks up with BECKY (19), causing a ripple in his relationship with Ellen. Kazan visits Stella to ask about casting ideas for Streetcar and determines, via Ellen's depressed state that Brando might be perfect for the role.
In one of numerous flashbacks to Brando's childhood, we learn the extent of his challenging relationship with his alcoholic mother DOROTHY (30s), and abusive, borderline alcoholic father MARLON SENIOR (30s). It's this pain that Brando eventually uses to find...