Remember Mama (1944), followed by Truckline Cafe (1946) for which critics voted him Broadway’s most promising actor. The 1947 production of Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan, brought Brando center stage as the raging Stanley Kowalski, and Hollywood caught on. Amazingly, Brando would be nominated by the Academy for four straight years for a best actor award: the screen version of Streetcar (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), finally winning for On the Waterfront (1954), the same year he starred in the now-classic
