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Transcript: Profile: Soundbite from "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
12-03-2005
Profile: Soundbite from "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host:
On this day in 1947, an audience at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theatre witnessed the Broadway premiere of what would later be voted the best play of the 20th century.
(Soundbite from "A Streetcar Named Desire")
Mr. MARLON BRANDO: (As Stanley Kowalski) Hi, Blanche.
Ms. JESSICA TANDY: (As Blanche DuBois) Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented and feeling like a brand-new human being.
ELLIOTT: Jessica Tandy was Blanche DuBois, the fallen and fading Southern bell created by Tennessee Williams in "A Streetcar Names ...