Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Historic Interview with Broadway’s Original Blanche DuBois
In this 1983 interview, Jessica Tandy gets deeply personal about her approach to acting and why she doesn’t consider actors “creators.”
Digging into the archives, we unearth the original articles printed in the Playbills of yesteryear.
At age 74, theatre legend Jessica Tandy returned to Broadway in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, which opened December 1, 1983, at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. After originating the role of Blanche DuBois in the original 1947 production of A Streetcar Named Desire—a role that earned Tandy her first Tony Award—she was prepared to play Williams’ towering matriarch Amanda Wingfield.