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” ...

On the Waterfront at 70: An undeniable masterpiece – but should we forgive its director Elia Kazan? The classic Marlon Brando film swept the Oscars in 1955 and is about to be re-released in ...

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 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.

What seemed particularly crass about Kazan's naming Phoebe Brand and Tony Kraber as Communists was that it was he who had recruited them into the Party. In 1955 Kraber was called before HUAC.

Even years later, when Kazan received an honorary Oscar in 1999, the controversy surrounding his cooperation with HUAC evoked Hellman’s defiant legacy.

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 ...

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 ...

Elia Kazan is famous for lots of things: for being a founder of the Actors Studio, for his collaborative friendships with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, for having discovered James Dean ...

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 ...

Sooner or later, everyone from Lucille Ball and Gary Cooper to Sterling Hayden and Elia Kazan testified. HUAC exponentially expanded Billy’s blacklist.