Marlon Brando, re-creates on the screen, his great triumph as Kowlaski, who bullied and tore at Blanche's (Vivian Leigh) neurotic self in Tennessee Williams Pulitzer prize winner, "A Streetcar Named Desire".A Streetcar Named Desire/Marlon Brando portrays Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 production of the Tennessee Williams play.More of the Same : Greer Garson's description of Marlon Brando: "He enters a room with all the unobstrusiveness of a guided missile". October 29, 1954.