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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few directors have achieved equally distinguished status in both theater and film. To this select ambidextrous group belongs Elia Kazan, who also proved himself an autobiographer of stature. (We pass ...

Scorsese, though, admits in the film that in life he could never explain to Kazan just what his movies ... delighted and surprised by A Letter to Elia's success on the festival circuit and with ...