They’re not all self-absorbed, self-justifying, passionate geniuses, but if you’re curious about that model you can’t do better than Elia ... Kazan’s massive, fascinating autobiography, A ...

At the time Elia Kazan was a pioneer in American theater ... And in his 1988 autobiography “A Life,” Kazan infamously wrote, “The only genuinely good and original films I’ve made, I ...

Active supporters include Gary Cooper and John Wayne. Miller and Kazan meet when Harold Clurman, Kazan's producing partner, reads Miller's play, "All My Sons." Kazan and Clurman buy the rights to ...

In this volume, he continued his life’s work of highlighting non-mainstream films that he felt deserved a larger audience. Read it here. Related reading: I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries ...

Not that the money helped — “Tycoon” was a miserable experience for Kazan and he never made another movie, spending the rest of his life writing novels and a memoir. Perhaps if “The ...

Elia Kazan’s action in 1952 made him a pariah ... as in so many other walks of life. Kazan paid no detectable professional price for naming names. He directed 11 films after testifying, wrote ...

Sometimes life really does imitate art. And sometimes that art is a 66-year-old Elia Kazan movie that hardly anyone remembers anymore. I’m talking about 1957’s “A Face in the Crowd,” Kazan ...

Director Elia Kazan‘s “The Visitors” was barely noticed when it ... at Kazan’s own country home in Connecticut with minimal resources. Chris took a real-life incident as his starting point — the same ...