Malden resumed his film acting career in the 1950s, starting with "The Gunfighter" and then "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950) and "Halls of Montezuma" (1951). "A Streetcar Named Desire" (also 1951) had Malden playing Harold "Mitch" Mitchell, Stanley Kowalski's best friend, who starts a romance with Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh). For this role, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films during this period included Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess" (1953) with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter, and "On the Waterfront" (1954) — where he received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — playing a priest who influences Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to testify against mobster-union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb).