Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
According to John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, his subject was ‘the most autobiographical of American playwrights’. Williams himself understood how life often inspired art. As he explained:
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