But it’s just as hard to deny that Kazan’s naming of names during the great red hunt of the 1950s […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 56°F. Thursday, May 22nd 2025 ...

Elia Kazan: A BiographyBy Richard SchickelHarperCollins, 510 pages, $29.95To find a director who dominated theater and film more completely than Elia Kazan (1909-2003) did, you have to look to ...

Kazan had been a left-wing activist in his youth, and, in April 1952, he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC. Search Remove Ads ...

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” ...

Kazan named names, even if he said HUAC already had the information," Solnik said. "Miller saw that as a betrayal. When Miller ended up in front of the committee, Marilyn Monroe tried to save him.

Retrospectively, many people think that Miller did not mean to poke fun at HUAC and write a play as a direct attack against Kazan. The incredible and moving story of those in Salem, 1692, was ...

You don't have to approve of Elia Kazan's testimony before HUAC to recognize his 1954 “On the Waterfront” as a brilliant film, whose influence changed the face of American movies.

I am the daughter of actor Stanley J. Waxman (deceased), whom Kenneth Turan has never heard of, because my father’s fledgling career ended the minute he refused to cooperate with the House Un ...

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 ...

Amid the pomp and celebrity of tonight’s Academy Awards program, one moment promises to be the dramatic high point. It is the instant the curtain will go up on 89-year-old director Elia Kazan ...

In letters to the likes of Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams, the director of On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire was shrewd about just about everything but himself.