"Tennesse Williams Residence in Mourning."

ID: 5102 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Historica New Orleans Collection, 1995.7.204. ~ Creator: George E. Jordan ~ Date: February or March 1983.
This file appears in: A Streetcar Named Desire
"Tennesse Williams Residence in Mourning."

View of a black ribbon on the door of the residence the week after the playwright's death on February 24, 1983. This was his residence while he wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire."

This file appears in: A Streetcar Named Desire

By Heidi Schmalbach & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor
A Streetcar Named Desire is the title of a 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams, adapted in 1951 for the big screen by director Elia Kazan. It is undoubtedly one of the most famous film depictions of the City of New Orleans,…