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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b and was later said to be unable to distinguish her own life from that of her troubled character Blanche DuBois.

Leigh was the third choice for the role, after Jessica Tandy (who played the role on Broadway but lacked box-office pulling power) and Olivia de Havilland, who reputedly turned it down.

Leigh, who famously played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, was 37 at the time of Streetcar.

She made only three more films and died in 1967, aged 53.

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