Brando's Stanley Kowalski is perhaps the greatest performance, on stage or in movies, of a male actor in the twentieth century. Transcendent drama: Kowalski stalking Blanche (Leigh), playing cards, belting down beer, parading about in his bathrobe, living in that almost breathing torn undershirt, screaming "STELLAAAA" by starlight. Lucky for us that Brando hitchhiked from New York to Tennessee Williams's summer home in Provincetown to convince the playwright that he was the perfect Kowalski.