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	Elia Kazan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elia Kazan, (Greek ΕλίαΚαζάν), (September 7, 1909– September 28, 2003) was an American film and Theatre director and producer.
		Kazan had briefly been a member of the Communist Party in his youth, when working as part of a radical theatre troupe in the 1930s.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elia_Kazan (610 words)

	Honoring Elia Kazan
		Kazan knew that no studio would hire them, for fear of offending the political leaders who were behind the Red scare, that they would be blacklisted from every possible kind of work in Hollywood, and in fact that some or all of them would go to jail.
		Because Kazan to this day has never even acknowledged that what he did was immoral, or had consequences, or even that the eight he named were not in fact threats to the security of this country.
		And yet because of Kazan's testimony before the House Committee their careers, and their lives, were destroyed.
	www.movies101.com /HONORINGELIAKAZAN.HTML (462 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'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.
		Kazan describes on his first meeting as "having the classic good looks of the American small-town girl." She was with her first lover, Johnny Hyde, at the time, and Mr.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/kazan-miller.html (1407 words)

	Afterimage: Elia Kazan, 1909-2003 - Obituaries
		Kazan never apologized for his actions and the consequences in Hollywood of his naming names was to be felt throughout the remainder of his career and life, with numerous colleagues refusing to ever speak to him again.
		When Kazan was first called in 1952 to testify in front of the McCarthy-era House Un-American Activities Committee, he refused to offer any pertinent information but later gave the names of eight colleagues, some of whom were blacklisted as a result.
		Kazan had joined the Communist party as a young man but was eventually cast out of it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2479/is_3_31/ai_113655072 (437 words)

	Elia Kazan -- leftwing critics won't let go
		It was Dreyfus who maligned Elia Kazan by falsely claiming that his anti-communism "lasted barely as long as it took to testify in front of the House of Un-American Activities Committee." That is a lie, as we shall soon see.
		Fortunately the brilliant works of Elia Kazan and Dmytryk will be remembered so long as people value art and genius, and long after their leftwing critics have disappeared into well deserved oblivion.
		Higson not only misrepresented Elia Kazan she even suggested that those he testified against were not communists.
	www.brookesnews.com /030110kazan.html (956 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.
		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.
		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.
	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 became a member of the Communist Party in the summer of 1934, and quit in the spring of 1936 in protest, he asserts, over the party leadership's heavy-handed and undemocratic attempt to wrest control of the theater company.
	wsws.org /articles/1999/feb1999/kaz1-f20.shtml (9605 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film News Elia Kazan dies at 94
		Elia Kazan receiving an award for his life's work at the Berlin Film festival in 1996.
		Director Elia Kazan, whose triumphs included the original Broadway productions of Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, and the Oscar-winning film On the Waterfront, has died at age 94.
		Kazan told the committee that he had joined a unit of the Communist party in the summer of 1934 and left 18 months later, disillusioned at "being told what to think and say and do".
	film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1051924,00.html (825 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Elia Kazan
		These are just some of the productions that have made Elia Kazan's name legendary in the history of American theater and film.
		Kazan was born in Istanbul (then Constantinople), Turkey, to Greek parents, with whom he moved to the United States when he was 4.
		Kazan also proved himself to be a novelist with America, America and The Arrangement, both of which he turned into motion pictures.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3749&source_type=A (862 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com
		ELIA KAZAN: A DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY is an entertaining portrait of the great stage and screen director that takes a purely hagiographic approach but features valuable and revealing interview footage with Kazan (shot in 1994) commenting on his films and the legendary performers he's worked with.
		ELIA KAZAN: A DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY was produced by Castle Hill Productions founder Julian Schlossberg, who befriended Kazan in the '80s and acquired the distribution rights to the three films that Kazan owned (BABY DOLL, A FACE IN THE CROWD, and AMERICA, AMERICA).
		In the final analysis, Kazan comes off as intelligently combative as ever and certainly won't win over any of his enemies, but when a short list of the artistic giants of the 20th-Century is written, his name will have to be near the top.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=40685 (330 words)

	Elia Kazan: Postage Paid
		Between 1945 and 1957 Elia Kazan directed 10 critically acclaimed motion pictures.
		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)

	Elia Kazan: A Biography
		Elia Kazan rose from the Group Theater socialist experiments of the Depression and the method acting technique to the inaugural purveyor of a more natural and psychologically complex style of film and theater.
		The testimony provided by Kazan (and collaborator and screenwriter Bud Schulberg) became the measure by which his career was and continues to be judged.
		With such an outstanding body of work upon which to judge Kazan's merits, it's unfortunate that his friendly testimony to the House Un-American Committee is the measure of most liberals' assessment.
	movies.worldmagblog.com /movies/archives/021176.html (621 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Elia Kazan: A Moral Hero by Robert W. Tracinski
		Almost without exception, the obituaries of Elia Kazan -- while praising his enormous talent as a director -- are critical of his testimony against Hollywood Communists.
		Kazan intended the film as a metaphor for his decision to testify against his former comrades in the Party.
		Kazan was the one defending freedom--while it was the Hollywood Communists who were betraying their fellow man.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10076 (705 words)

	Justice for Elia Kazan by Glenn Woiceshyn -- Capitalism Magazine
		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.
		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.
		It is obscene enough for Kazan's critics (past and present) to defend staunch enemies of free speech in the name of free speech.
	capmag.com /article.asp?ID=17 (903 words)

	Blacklist and Backstory By Jacob Weisberg
		Elia Kazan wasn't a hack, and he didn't try to be a hero.
		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.
	www.slate.com /id/18121 (1600 words)

	Elia Kazan at Reel Classics
		Kazan became increasingly active in filmmaking after World War II, and his screen adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's novel GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (1947) proved a compelling indictment of socially accepted anti-Semitism, earning eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars, including one for Best Picture of the Year.
		Under Kazan's guidance, stars Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters all earned Academy Award nominations for PINKY, and Ethel Waters' nomination marked only the second time in Academy history (following Hattie McDaniel's Oscar for GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)) that the work of a black actress was so recognized.
		In 1951, Kazan introduced film audiences to Tennessee Williams' successful stage drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE which he had directed on Broadway in 1947, launching the career of Marlon Brando.
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Kazan/kazan.htm (577 words)

	Elia Kazan
		Elia Kazan's life is examined in this complex biography.
		To trust Schickel's admirably thorough biography, Kazan was resolutely of the left all his life, though not uncritically.
		It occurred when Kazan, brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, became a friendly witness and proffered the identities of several one-time members of the Communist Party.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001572550 (513 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).
		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.
		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:".
	www.geraldpeary.com /essays/jkl/kazan.html (775 words)

	Elia Kazan at Reel Classics: Article: Elia Kazan: The Director And His Gifts; The Kennedy Center Honors the Artist
		Kazan jokes that he can't go to the award ceremony in the Opera House dressed as he is this particular afternoon, but you sense he'd prefer to.
		The list of actors Kazan either discovered or propelled to stardom is lengthy, but one measure of its significance is that Marlon Brando ("Streetcar"), Warren Beatty ("Splendor in the Grass") and James Dean ("East of Eden") all made their initial imprint on the public consciousness in Kazan-directed works.
		Kazan inspires respect, not to say awe, for the work he has brought both to the stage ("The Skin of Our Teeth," "Death of a Salesman," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs") and to the screen ("Gentleman's Agreement," "Splendor in the Grass," "On the Waterfront," "East of Eden").
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Kazan/kazan-article2.htm (2535 words)

	Elia Kazan
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	www.infoplease.com /id/A0827236 (293 words)

	Elia Kazan: Riding the Streetcar Named Desire
		Kazan, a man who shed skins, like the sinuous black snake he had come to know intimately during his walks in the country, its skin delicate as a butterfly when he would discover the fragile membrane lying by the side of the road in the early spring, its luminous black occupant having slithered noiselessly away.
		During long summer vacations from school, Elia would work in the store, surrounded by lush beautiful rugs and pungent oriental aromas, as he would roll and unroll the heavy carpets for potential buyers, folding them, beating the carpets with wire instruments as plumes of dust rose out of their mysterious interiors.
		He was now A.E. Kazan, otherwise known as "Joe," founder of the prestigious George Kazan Inc. Oriental Rugs and Carpets, a charismatic personality profiled by the legendary writer/agent Sam Behrman in the pages of The New Yorker Magazine.
	www.evesmag.com /kazan.htm (794 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.
		Besides, there was no director more in demand in the theater than Elia Kazan.
		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)

	Kazan, Elia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kazan, Elia
		Kazan worked with the Group Theatre and acted on the stage 1935–41.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
		Among the plays he directed are The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kazan,+Elia (175 words)

	Justice to Elia Kazan by Harry Stein, City Journal Autumn 2005
		No one mentioned Elia Kazan’s name from the stage that night—that would’ve been to give the skunk an introduction at the garden party.
		When Elia Kazan, one of the twentieth century’s great American theater and movie directors, died two years ago, the obituaries almost all struck the same sour note.
		When Elia Kazan, one of the twentieth century's great American theater and movie directors, died two years ago, the obituaries almost all struck the same sour note.
	www.city-journal.org /html/15_4_urbanities-elia_kazan.html (5673 words)

	Salon Media Circus Unspun: Why Elia Kazan should not receive an Oscar
		None of which changes the fact that Elia Kazan should not be receiving a special Oscar at the Academy Awards this year.
		Kazan shouldn't be receiving this award for a number of reasons, having to do with the nature of what Kazan did, and the nature of the award itself.
		For his part, Kazan recanted and informed, in the process denying to others that same freedom of expression he had claimed for himself, to great personal success, in his art.
	www.salon.com /media/eric/1999/03/17eric.html (848 words)

	Elia Kazan: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		"Kazan's honor." (Elia Kazan and the blacklisting entertainment industry personalities)(Column) Washington Post (Sat, March 20, 1999):A19, col 5, 19 col in.
		"Polonsky and Kazan: HUAC and the violation of personality." (Abraham Polonsky, Elia Kazan and the House Unamerican Activities Committee) Sight and Sound Autumn 1988 v57 n4 p262(6)
		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 News - The New York Times
		Elia Kazan was one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history.
		By A. Elia Kazan’ s movies are parables of conflicted conscience and unstable desire, studies of individuals driven to rage, rebellion and sometimes to do the right thing.
		Elia Kazan, Influential Director, Is Dead at 94
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/k/elia_kazan (455 words)

	Elia Kazan
		Elia Kazan has never apologized or shown regret for his actions.
		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).
	www.filmnight.org /eliakazan.htm (445 words)

	BBC News The Oscars 1999 Kazan award divides Oscars audience
		Kazan's refusal to apologise for that testimony or for the hardships it caused his friends has made him an outcast in many Hollywood circles.
		Kazan made no reference to the controversy in his short acceptance speech.
		In January 1952, Kazan testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, admitting to his party membership but refusing to give the names of others involved in the movement.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/the_oscars_1999/300701.stm (385 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)

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