(1957, dir. Elia Kazan, w/ Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa) "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell. (IMDB) (1951, dir. Elia Kazan, w/ Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden) A Streetcar Named Desire will start at approximately 9:32pm, and finish at approximately 11:40pm. Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. She doesn't understand how Stella, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Stanley Kowalski's buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, Mitch, finds Blanche attractive until Stanley tells him about what kind of a woman Blanche really is. What will happen when Stella goes to the hospital to have her baby and just Blanche and her brother-in-law are in the house? (IMDB)
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