This is Vivien Leigh as

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This is Vivien Leigh as Blanche (Blanche!...Blanche!) Dubois in Streetcar, giving her "don't hang back with the brutes" speech. Substitute the behavior of Stanley Kowalski, whom she refers to in the early portion, with today's ape-cage downmarket movies, and...well, something to mull over, I think. I liked this Tennessee Williams play quite a lot when I first saw it in my late teens, but I love it now... especially the second half, starting with that scene with the visiting newspaper boy.