The final edit was supervised behind their backs by a co-author of the Code, Martin Quigley, who guided editor David Weisbart. Kazan and Williams refused to participate further. After the film was completed, further cuts were demanded by the Catholic Legion of Decency. Kazan and Williams wheedled, compromised, and some times persuaded the representatives of the Code to bal ance artistic considerations with moral concerns.
Williams and the film’s director, Elia Kazan, who staged Streetcar on Broadway, skillfully managed negotiations over matters they had known in advance would be problematic: a gay character spoken of off-stage, a woman who enjoyed sex outside of marriage, rape. The adaptation of the 1947 Broadway hit needed approval from the Motion Picture Production Code office. Making a film out of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951 was asking for trouble. Produced by the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Written by Jeremy Lawrence, based on the book When Blanche Met Brando by Sam Staggs A before and after comparison of what was cut out by Hollywood censors from the 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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