but demanded some sexual attention as that is all she is apparently good for. She told him to get out or she'd scream fire, and he left. Stanley drunkenly fondles Blanche, who rejects him and affects a high dudgeon. He traps her in the bedroom and easily disarms her after she breaks a bottle to use as a weapon. She collapses and the scene ends with her impending rape. This final assault on what she had left of her dignity sends Blanche over the edge into a nervous breakdown. Blanche tells Stella but Stanley lies to his wife and denies Blanche's claim. Weeks later, Stella has Blanche committed to a mental institution at Stanley's insistence. In the original play, Stella refuses to allow herself to believe Blanche (with the support of Eunice Hubbell) and stays with Stanley, although she seems to need to convince herself. In the 1951 film adaptation, however, due to the demands of the censors, Stella leaves him and takes their child. Most later film and television versions restore the original ending. Development When developing the character, Williams frequently changed what Stanley's ethnicity would be. Originally the story was set in Chicago and he was written as an Italian American named Lucio. Another draft, set in Atlanta, had the character named Ralph and be an Irish American. In order the draft names were: Lucio, Stanley Landowski, Jack, Ralph, Ralph Stanley, and Ralph Kowalski, prior to the final one. No copies of the play drafts mention what Kowalski's line of work is. According to author Joseph W. Zurawski, Stanley appeared to be an office worker instead of a blue collar worker. In other media He was most famously portrayed by Marlon Brando opposite Jessica Tandy's Blanche in the play's initial Broadway production and, several years later, opposite Vivien Leigh in the 1951 film adaptation. Since then the role has been played to varying degrees of acclaim, by, among many others, Anthony Quinn (who succeeded Brando on Broadway and played opposite Tandy's successor, Uta Hagen), James Farentino (opposite Rosemary Harris) on Broadway in 1973, Treat Williams (in the 1984 TV movie, opposite Ann-Margret), and Alec Baldwin (opposite Jessica Lange, both on Broadway in 1992 and in the 1995 TV movie). Aidan Quinn and Christopher Walken both played the role opposite Blythe Danner's Blanche in two different stage productions. The three actors and both productions, however, received mixed to middling