"A streetcar Named Desire" An Elia Kazan production Produced by Charles K. Feldman Starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. The stars, Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. The much-discussed film version of American playwright Tennessee Williams' trgic "A Streetcar Named Desire" will be screened in Auckland shortly. The film features Vivien Leigh, who played Blanche Dubois in the London stage production, and Marlon Brando (Stan) and Kim Hunter (Stan) and Kim Hunter (Stella), from the New York stage production. Brando will be remembered here for his part in the film "The Men." Karl Malden plays Mitch. The story tells of the degradation of two daughters of a once wealthy and aristocratic Southern family. January 29, 1955. (Photo by Warner Bros, Pictures Inc. Presents).