Since 1954, many apologist and revisionist historians have sought to distance On the Waterfront from the controversy over its director’s testimony to HUAC. Kazan himself continued to defend his ...

Elia Kazan: A Biography By Richard Schickel . Schickel’s no less disputatious critical biography makes a fine counterbalance, framing HUAC more sympathetically, deploring Kazan’s aging “Stalinist” ...

Elia Kazan's masterful, Best Picture-winning drama On the Waterfront follows boxer-turned-dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) as he's compelled to expose the crimes of a local mob boss in ...

Famed director Elia Kazan, who was known for his films “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “East of Eden,” became a controversial figure after the HUAC trials as one of the people who named ...

This is one of the devil’s bargains recalled in “A City Full of Hawks.” The bigger one was made between Kazan and his own conscience when he decided to give HUAC everything it could possibly ...

Kazan and Miller’s relationship — and their collaboration on The Hook — would break down following Kazan’s HUAC testimony, and Miller would rework The Hook into his play A View from the ...

Kazan had previously directed Death of a Salesman to great acclaim and, as Here in America posits, the pair had been like “brothers”. After Kazan’s testimony, they didn’t speak for 10 years.

Even years later, when Kazan received an honorary Oscar in 1999, the controversy surrounding his cooperation with HUAC evoked Hellman’s defiant legacy. However, her account of these events was ...

Unironically, On the Waterfront is itself a story about informants: one of its writers was Budd Schulberg, who’d also given names to HUAC. Operating on shaky logic, he and Kazan intended On the ...

1952 was also when Elia Kazan was called upon as a witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to identify communists from his days with The Group, a theatre troupe that in its ...