Gene Kelly in An American in Paris (1951, dir. Vincente Minnelli) Art director Preston Ames designed the set in the style of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting Chocolat Dancing In Bar Darchille.
Warren Barker - Caper at the Coffee House (via 77 Sunset Strip: OST)
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, dir. Richard Brooks)
Miles Davis - ‘Round Midnight
![Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, dir. Elia Kazan)
“The audience at the beginning should see her negative effect on Stella and want Stanley to tell her off. He does, he exposes her, and then we gradually see how genuinely in pain, how actually desperate she is, how warm, tender, and loving she can be (the Mitch story) - then we begin to go with her. The audience realizes that they are witnessing the death of something extraordinary - colorful, varied, lost, witty, imaginative, of her own integrity - and thus they feel the tragedy.
Blanche, out of place, unappreciated, a stranger in the modern, rough, coarse South; yet despite sickness and unbalance, she has more warmth than any of them. It is important symbolically that Blanche is an English teacher. She is the last repository of culture, abandoned, not prized, deformed, destroyed, gone begging for protection.
At the end, the grandeur and nobility belong to Blanche, and the “victors”, Stella and Stanley, are left with each other, a relationship of vulgar crudity and, for Stella, of growing emptiness and terror. (Also, Tennessee [Williams] wants desperately to be with other people, yet be superior to them.)”
-Elia Kazan, quoted in Kazan on Directing](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li9bbeHZp31qzdvhio1_r5_500.jpg)
Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, dir. Elia Kazan)
Bernard Herrmann - The Nightmare (via Vertigo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
