Like Stanley, he was a ruthless man-child with reservoirs of tenderness and violence.Ī year before on Broadway in Maxwell Anderson’s Truckline Café, which Elia Kazan co‑produced and which Harold Clurman directed, Brando stopped the show with a five-minute ‘murder monologue’. He was a beautiful, brooding specimen: mercurial, rebellious and rampant. Then, on August 29, a name that didn’t appear on any of her extensive casting lists was being wired to Selznick at her Summit Avenue home in Beverly Hills: Marlon Brando.īrando, who was 23 years old, had appeared without much critical attention in five Broadway plays. OIVAY,” she wired Irving Schneider, her business manager, signing herself “Polyanna”. “I HAVE GARFIELD-ITIS IN CHEST AND THROAT. Richard Conte, Dane Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster were mooted. Selznick, feeling “low as a snake,” immediately started turning over other Hollywood options. On August 18 the deal with Garfield collapsed. The Selznick office leaked the big news to the press. On July 19 1947, the producer Irene Selznick drew up a contract for the 34-year-old John Garfield, one of the few sexy Hollywood stars with a proletarian pedigree, to play Stanley Kowalski in the debut of A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway.
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