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	Elia Kazan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elia Kazan, (Greek Ηλίας Καζάν), (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director and producer.
		Kazan's theater credits included directing A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), two of the plays that made Tennessee Williams a theatrical and literary force, and All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman, (1949) the plays which did much the same for Arthur Miller.
		Kazan had briefly been a member of the Communist Party in his youth, when working as part of a theater troupe, the Group Theater, in the 1930s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elia_Kazan (1132 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Elia Kazan
		Elia Kazan, (Greek Ηλίας Καζάν), (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and Theatre director and producer.
		Kazan's later career was clouded, however, by the fact that he was one of the few Hollywood luminaries who "named names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the postwar "Red Scare".
		A committed liberal, Kazan felt betrayed by the atrocities of Stalin and the ideological rigidity of the Stalinists.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Elia_Kazan (836 words)

	Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
		To the extent that Elia Kazan is known at all to today's movie-going audience, it is most likely as the fragile-looking old man who caused all the fuss at the 1999 Oscar ceremony.
		Despite his efforts, Kazan would never be known as a visual stylist; his strengths as a director have their roots in the Stanislavskian method of acting he helped pioneer on Broadway.
		Kazan's testimony before the HUAC is glossed over in one or two sentences, and is couched in terms favorable to the director's perspective.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/EliaKazan.htm (628 words)

	Hollywood honors Elia Kazan: Filmmaker and informer
		Kazan, the director of 19 feature films between 1945 and 1976, was one of the most prominent figures to turn informer during the anticommunist witch-hunts of the early 1950s.
		Kazan's decision to collaborate with the HUAC inquisitors epitomized the devil's bargain into which a significant section of the filmmaking community and the American liberal intelligentsia as a whole entered during this period.
		Kazan, Schulberg and others aligned themselves with the Soviet bureaucracy and the American party during the era of the Popular Front, when the Stalinists were supporters of Roosevelt and held significant positions in the CIO unions.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/feb1999/kaz1-f20.shtml (9605 words)

	Kazan and Miller (1988)
		Kazan, who is 78 years old, covers a half-century as an actor, a stage and screen director, a writer of popular novels and a pal of moguls, starlets and authors, many of whom have long been enveloped in the hazy glow of legend.
		Kazan describes one night when she came to his hotel room to announce that she was going to marry Joe DiMaggio, then spent the night with Mr.
		Kazan's basic argument was that he did not want to destroy his film career--a probable consequence of refusing to answer the committee's questions--for the sake of a cause he did not believe in, namely, protecting the anonymity of Communists or former Communists.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/kazan-miller.html (1407 words)

	BookRags: Elia Kazan Biography
		Elia Kazan (born 1909) is known as the preeminent director of works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
		Elia Kazan was born into a large family of Anatolian Greeks near Istanbul in 1909.
		Kazan's family came to the United States when he was four, and he grew up in the slums and suburbs of New York City.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/elia-kazan (1249 words)

	Elia Kazan @ Filmbug
		Elia Kazan, born Elia Kazanjoglous, a Greek-born American director of theater and film, was one of the most visible members of the Hollywood elite.
		As Kazan later explained, he felt that it was in the best interest of the country and his own liberal beliefs to cooperate with McCarthy's anti-communist efforts in order to counter Communists in Hollywood who were co-opting the liberal agenda.
		Kazan's On the Waterfront, about a heroic mob informer, is widely considered to be his answer to his critics.
	www.filmbug.com /db/4028 (573 words)

	Elia Kazan
		Elia Kazan was born in Istanbul (according to some sources Kayseri) of Greek parentage.
		Kazan was especially acclaimed for his powerful and realistic direction of the plays of Tennessee Williams, such as A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), and Arthur Miller, such as Death of a Salesman (1948).
		Kazan was Marilyn Monroe's lover before Arthur Miller married her, but she did not play in his films.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kazan.htm (2074 words)

	Elia Kazan
		Kazan was known for his left-wing views and he was eventually called to appear before the House of Un-American Activities Committee.
		Kazan cooperated, he was shunned and scorned by many of his colleagues for the rest of his life.
		Elia Kazan was my first teacher in movies, an indispensable mentor for me; inspiring, generous, unpretentious, pre-eminent in both the theatre and the movies.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAkazan.htm (3251 words)

	The Ayn Rand Institute: Elia Kazan: Moral Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kazan was the one defending freedom--while it was the Hollywood communists who were betraying their fellow man.
		Thus, the injustice of which Kazan is accused is not that he made false accusations--but that he was an anti-communist.
		Kazan intended the film as a metaphor for his decision to testify against his former comrades in the Party.
	www.aynrand.org /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7870&news_iv_ctrl=-1 (804 words)

	Kazan, Elia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		KAZAN, ELIA [Kazan, Elia], 1909-2003, American stage and film director, producer, writer, actor, b.
		Immigrating with his Greek family to the United States in 1913, Kazan studied at Williams College and the Yale Drama School before beginning his acting career with the New York Group Theatre in the 1930s.
		Kazan won best-director Oscars for Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954) and an honorary life's achievement Academy Award in 1999.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kazan-El.asp (460 words)

	Justice for Elia Kazan by Glenn Woiceshyn -- Capitalism Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kazan himself joined the Communist Party in 1934 because he was concerned about the depression and Hitler's rise, and liked what communists were preaching.
		Kazan was morally right to inform on these treasonous criminals -- to do otherwise would have been to sanction the destruction of his freedom-loving country by its worst enemies.
		It is obscene enough for Kazan's critics (past and present) to defend staunch enemies of free speech in the name of free speech.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=17 (981 words)

	Gerald Peary - essays - Elia Kazan
		I've got one: the forgive-and-forget honorary Oscar being bestowed on 90-year-old filmmaker Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront, East of Eden), who, in 1952, disgracefully "named names," finking on his show-business compatriots before the notoriously rightist House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).
		He has also admitted, in the 1974 book Kazan on Kazan, that it was his revenge after being purged by the Communists in the 1930s: ".
		Kazan has conceded that, at first, after being attacked everywhere for his testimony, he wondered whether what he'd done was "repulsive." But this attack of conscience quickly dissipated.
	www.geraldpeary.com /essays/jkl/kazan.html (775 words)

	Elia Kazan,
		While no one denied Kazan's contribution to film, many in the industry were outraged that the Academy chose to honor the man who, in 1952 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, ratted on eight of his friends who, with him, had been members of the American Communist Party in the 1930s.
		Elia Kazan - Elia Kazan Age: 94 one of the most influential and talented theater and film directors, Kazan won...
		Elia Kazan - Kazan, Elia, 1909–2003, American stage and film director, producer, writer, actor, b.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0779316.html (215 words)

	Tribute to Elia Kazan
		The late Elia Kazan was one of Broadway’s most honored directors, a top nurturer of acting talent, and the helmer of beloved movies that won 22 Academy Awards and 40 more Oscar nominations.
		Kazan was renowned as the top “actors’ director” of his generation, explosively launching the careers of unknowns Marlon Brando and James Dean, and guiding outstanding performances by Mongomery Clift, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Lee Remick, Eva Marie Saint, Jo Van Fleet, Natalie Wood and many others—nine of which resulted in acting Oscars.
		Kazan’s next four films were also well regarded, but they began the long decline in his quality of his work.
	www.films42.com /tribute/kazan.asp (2319 words)

	By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
		Kazan might have stood by his original policy, asserting that while he hated Communism, he would not assist in a violation of civil liberties.
		Kazan's soon to be ex-friend Arthur Miller did something like this four years later when he refused to answer questions.
		Elia Kazan wasn't a hack, and he didn't try to be a hero.
	www.slate.com /id/18121 (1915 words)

	ELIA KAZAN
		Elia Kazan was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) of Greek parentage.
		Kazan's next film, EAST OF EDEN (1955), was based on John Steinbeck's novel and the central role was played by James Dean.
		Kazan was trying to do something different, bold, go inside the head of my character in all his confusion over his career, his women, his father, his life.
	www.omogenia.com /movies/eliakazan1.htm (1757 words)

	Elia Kazan - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Elia Kazan (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director and producer.
		He was born Elia Kazanjoglou in Constantinople in 1909 to Greek parents.
		Kazan's theater credits included directing The Glass Menagerie (1944) and A Streetcar Named Desire, (1951) the two plays that made Tennessee Williams a theatrical and literary force, and All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949) the plays which did much the same for Arthur Miller.
	voyager.in /Elia_Kazan (531 words)

	GreenCine Daily: Elia Kazan, 1909 - 2003.
		"Elia Kazan, the immigrant child of a Greek rug merchant who became one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.
		Kazan angered many of his friends and colleagues when he acknowledged before the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had been a member of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1936 and gave the committee the names of eight other party members....
		As for Kazan, somewhere around page 600 in his autobiography he sums things up fairly well: 'For years I declared myself an ardent liberal in politics, made all the popular declarations of faith, but the truth was - and is - that I am, like most of you, a bourgeois.
	daily.greencine.com /archives/000188.html (960 words)

	Elia Kazan
		Kazan, born to Greek parents, fell under the spell of theater in the 1930's and began acting.
		It was here that Elia first met talented artists such as writer Abraham Polonsky, actor John Garfield and acting teacher Lee Strasberg, the man who created method acting (practiced by Marlon Brando, James Dean and Montgomery Clift).
		Kazan "Named Names" claiming he had no loyalty to his fellow artists.
	www.filmnight.org /eliakazan.htm (445 words)

	American Masters . Elia Kazan \| PBS
		Elia Kazan, one of America's great directors, was to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, and this honor had divided Hollywood.
		But Kazan has his champions-some who think he was right to do what he did, others who think his body of work important enough to justify the recognition.
		For many, Kazan's brilliant career-all that he contributed to the theater, to film, to letters-will be tainted by a single decision he was forced to make some fifty years ago.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/kazan_e.html (982 words)

	Amazon.com: Elia Kazan: A Life: Books: Elia Kazan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kazan pulls no punches in depicting his epic journey from Greek immigrant to one of the greatest theatre and film directors of all time.
		Elia Kazan defends his decision to name names during the Hollywood Hearings of the 1950s, saying that his ideas toward the Communist Party had changed and he thought the higher ups (maybe from Russia) were dictating policies to the American communists in the movie business.
		Kazan spares no one, least of all himself, in recounting motivations, actions and consequences throughout his extradordinary journey as an actor, a director and a writer.
	www.amazon.com /Elia-Kazan-Life/dp/0306808048 (2171 words)

	Elia Kazan: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		States that Kazan was subpoenaed by HUAC in early 1952, after which "The Hollywood Reporter" printed the story that Kazan had "confessed Commie membership." Further states that Kazan returned to HUAC in April 1952 and named eight persons as Communists.
		Kazan continues to be criticised for divulging details of members of the Communist party.
		Kazan rewrote the script shortly after his second testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to whom he identified individuals he knew to be members of the Communist Party before 1937.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/kazan.html (5165 words)

	Elia Kazan: Postage Paid
		Kazan also directed two of the most profound and influential dramas in Broadway history, “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947), and “The Death of a Salesman” (1948).
		Kazan came to the fore during the post-World War II years, arguably the most controversial period in Hollywood history.
		Many years later Kazan said “Viva Zapata”, which he was filming during the time of his committee testimony, “was structured to expose the ineffectiveness of idealistic revolutionaries, I believe that democracy progresses, through internecine war, through constant tension -we grow only through conflict.
	www.moderntimes.com /palace/kazan (1087 words)

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