Stellaaaa!! For the 1951 film, A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando was shouting at our own, Kim Hunter! She played Stella Kowalski and won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also originated the role on Broadway in 1947.
In 1975 Hunter appeared at the Historic Elitch Theatre in the play In Praise of Love. (This was just a couple years after her appearances as Dr. Zira in the first three Planet of the Apes films.)
Seasons at the Theatre
- 1975
Elitch Theatre Productions/Roles:
Notable Roles, Awards, and Other Work:
- For A Streetcar Named Desire Hunter won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
- Prior to the film, Hunter portrayed Stella Kowalski in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire
- She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968), and its sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).
Elitch Theatre Connections:
- Hunter appeared in the 1979 television miniseries Backstairs at the White House with Elitch Theatre alums, Julie Harris, Cloris Leachman and Eileen Heckart.
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