But was it fun to read?
"Gasping and guffawing, Miami playgoers were watching reckless-driving Actress Tallulah Bankhead run A Streetcar Named Desire completely off its trolley. In the role of beaten, world-weary Blanche Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play’s climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski. As Streetcar’s wild run began, Playwright Tennessee Williams had unwarily cozied up to Tallulah in her dressing room (see cut). After catching her first performances, he began attending a nearby bar. Groaned he into his cups and to all who would listen: 'That woman is ruining my play.' Later, unable even to bear reports of the nightly spectacle, Williams left town. But, ruinously or not, Tallulah kept packing them into the theater. Next destinations of her wayward Streetcar: Palm Beach, then Manhattan’s City Center."
"People, Feb. 13, 1956"| TIME
https://time.com/archive/6828406/people-feb-13-1956/
Yes.
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