The Collection has put together an exhibit which takes you through various stages as Williams wrote Streetcar for Broadway. The Historic New Orleans Collection owns the apartment building on Toulouse Street where Tennessee Williams lived during one of his stays in the French Quarter. Toulouse Street residence of Tennessee Williams Behind the scenes at the historic new orleans collection
But in the few short years between the time Williams wrote the play and the release of the motion picture, the Desire Streetcar Line shut down. Williams would have heard the continuous rumble and clanging of the electric rail cars moving up and down the old Desire Streetcar Line, only a half-block away. Tennessee Williams was living in an apartment on Toulouse Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter when he wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”. 922, featured in the opening scenes of the movie A Streetcar Named Desire The title comes from a real New Orleans streetcar line that no longer exists.
He wrote the play while he was living in New Orleans French Quarter.
A Streetcar Named Desire, the winner of 12 Academy awards including Best Picture in 1952, is also a Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway Play, written by Tennessee Williams.
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