Actual Video Footage Of Jessica Tandy In STREETCAR

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/28/22 at 11:52pm

This is from a television special in 1955 where she recreated a scene with Hume Cronyn as Mitch but it’s actual video of Tandy’s Blanche (the one performance I’d go back in time to see, if I could). 

Just remarkable. And the comments from Cronyn are so touching.

[FosseTharp]

Posted: 6/28/22 at 11:58pm

Thank you for this. 

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 8:44am

“I weigh 171 pounds!”

—the hell I do! 
 

 

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 9:53am

What a find! What a joy to watch.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 11:53am

My favorite show! I've gone back and listened to the 30 minute radio version with Jessica Tandy so I could recite the dialogue along with her more times than I care to admit. "It came like a bolt from the blue..."

Thank you, Jordan. Sometimes there's God so quickly!

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 1:59pm

I don't want realism, I want magic!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 2:08pm

I’ve watched those few minutes like 10 times already. I can’t believe it exists. And that 30 minute radio version is one of the best things that’s ever been recorded. 

[goodlead]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 2:12pm

I was impressed by how pretty she was -- and also pulled together.  We usually think of Blanche as at the edge of madness -- but not in this scene.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 2:59pm

Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Jessica Tandy in the original 1947 Broadway production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE:

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 3:53pm

She’s got a certain Kate McKinnon facial structure there… I’d watch that audition, if not that production.

[joevitus]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 4:11pm

Thank you so much for this!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 4:25pm

darquegk said: "She’s got a certain Kate McKinnon facial structure there… I’d watch that audition, if not that production."

I’m sure if Kate wanted, she could capture Tandy’s acting style if she put her mind to it.  On SNL she was showcased often parodying that 30s-40s acting style.  A full on production of Kate McKinnon as Jessica Tandy in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE would be interesting.

 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 6:39pm

BrodyFosse123 said: "Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Jessica Tandy in the original 1947 Broadway production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE:

Tandy was gorgeous. She kinda resembles Scarlett Johansson a bit in this pic. 

I wish I could take a time machine back to see Tandy in Streetcar and Barbara Bel Geddes in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 

 

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/29/22 at 7:51pm

It’s funny that I said Kate and you said Scarlett; I’ve always thought that a low-glamour Scarlett looks a lot like Kate.