Truckline Cafe

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Truckline Cafe was the title of a 1946

Viva Zapata, and On the Waterfront together. The play also remains notable for being the first time Brando and Malden worked together, prior to co-starring in A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and One Eyed Jacks
.

From the May 1, 2007 issue of

Slate Magazine, Troy Patterson notes in a review of a Turner Classic Movies
documentary about Brando:
The film spends a happily ample sum of time on Truckline Café, which was Brando's Broadway breakthrough, and contextualizes the triumph of Streetcar better than Brando's own autobiography.

From the July 7–13, 2004 edition of The Villager:
In “Broadway: The Golden Age,” a stirring documentary film by Rick McKay, that fine actor
Charles Durning says of his first sight of Brando (in “Truckline Cafe”): “I thought [he was a] guy they pulled in off the street. Too good to be an actor.”

New York Times
stating in part:

Our theater is strangled in a bottleneck . . . made up of a group of men who are hired to report the events of our stage and who more and more are acquiring powers which, as a group, they are not qualified to exercise — either by their training or their taste. . . . No opposition point of view is ever expressed. There is a blackout of all taste except the taste of these men.[1]

Meanwhile, playwright Anderson mounted an ad in the New York Herald Tribune:

It is an insult to our theater that there should be so many incompetents and irresponsibles among [the reviewers]. ... Of late years all plays are passed on largely by a sort of

Jukes family of journalism.[1]

Cast (in alphabetical order)

  • Joseph Adams ... Second Man
  • Marlon Brando ... Sage McRae
  • Irene Dailey ... Angie
  • Joann Dolan ... Evvie Garrett
  • Leila Ernst ... Sissie
  • Louis A. Florence ... Matt
  • Lou Gilbert ... Man With a Pail
  • Virginia Gilmore ... Anne
  • Solen Hayes ... First Man
  • Peter Hobbs ... The Breadman
  • Lorraine Kirby ... First Woman
  • Karl Malden ... Stag
  • David Manners ... Wing Commander Hern
  • June March ... Mildred
  • Kevin McCarthy ... Maurice
  • Peggy Meredith ... Janet
  • Anne Morgan ... First Girl
  • Frank Overton ... Toby
  • Richard Paul ... Bimi
  • Ann Shepherd ... Tory McRae
  • Robert Simon ... Patrolman Gray
  • Eugene Steiner ... Tuffy Garrett
  • Rose Steiner ... Second Woman
  • Gloria Stroock ... Second Girl
  • John Sweet ... Stew
  • Ralph Theadore ... Kip
  • Kenneth Tobey ... Hutch
  • Joanne Tree ... Celeste
  • June Walker ... Min
  • Richard Waring ... Mort
  • Jutta Wolf ... June

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Theater: Cafe Brawl". Time. 11 March 1946. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b Lahr, John (6 October 2014). "How Marlon Brando nearly missed his defining role". BBC Online. Retrieved 17 February 2024.

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