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    Elias Kazantzoglou (Greek: Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου, IPA: [iˈli.as kazanˈdzoɣlu]; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan (/ˈiːliə kəˈzæn/...
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  • Day Kazan (/kəˈzæn/ kə-ZAN; née Thacher; December 16, 1906 – December 14, 1963) was an American dramatist and the first wife of director Elia Kazan. Molly...
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  • Greek-American director Elia Kazan and his first wife, playwright Molly Kazan (née Mary Day Thacher). Through his mother, Kazan is a descendant of classicist...
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    paternal grandparents were film and theatre director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan (née Thacher). Elia was an Anatolian Greek emigrant from Istanbul...
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    director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan. Her sister is actress Zoe Kazan. Her father's side of the family was Greek. In 2012, Kazan starred as...
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  • City. Kazan has been married twice: to Peter Rudge, former manager of The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd; and to the director and writer Elia Kazan, from...
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    Geraldine Page, Eli Wallach, and directors Andreas Voutsinas, Frank Perry, Elia Kazan and Michael Cimino. By 1970, Strasberg had become less involved with the...
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  • Letter to Elia is a 2010 documentary film directed by Kent Jones and Martin Scorsese that follows the life and career of film director Elia Kazan and how...
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    On the Waterfront (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, and features Karl...
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    Desire (1947), a role he reprised in the 1951 film adaptation, directed by Elia Kazan. He made his film debut playing a wounded G.I. in The Men (1950) and won...
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    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. It is directed by Elia Kazan, and stars Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. The...
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    American film director Elia Kazan of sexual harassment and attempted rape in 1975 when she was under consideration for a part in Kazan's film The Last Tycoon...
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  • founding member), Morris Carnovsky, Clifford Odets, Sanford Meisner, Elia Kazan, Harry Morgan (billed as Harry Bratsburg), Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
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    Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan, and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
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    A Face in the Crowd (film) (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    Face in the Crowd is a 1957 American satirical drama film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Walter...
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  • America America (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan. It was inspired by the struggle of his uncle, Avraam Elia Kazantzoglou, to work his way to America...
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    Barbara Loden (category Kazan family)
    Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). Her subsequent performance in...
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    East of Eden (film) (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    East of Eden is a 1955 American epic period drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Paul Osborn, adapted from the fourth and final part of John...
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  • 1973), Spanish actress Elia Kaiyamo (born 1951), Namibian politician Elia Kazan (1909–2003), American director and producer Elia Legati (born 1986), Italian...
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    performance, she won an Outer Critics Circle Award. She made her film debut in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. The film, which received...
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    Splendor in the Grass (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    the Grass is a 1961 American period drama film produced and directed by Elia Kazan, from a screenplay written by William Inge. It stars Natalie Wood and...
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    the 1946 Miss America pageant, she secured a scholarship to study under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City, making her professional debut in...
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  • Viva Zapata! (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb...
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    American National Theater and Academy, and was recommended to director Elia Kazan, who was in search of young talent for his Lincoln Center Repertory Company...
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    Making Rebel Without a Cause. Touchstone. ISBN 0-7432-6082-1. Kazan, Elia (1997). Elia Kazan: A Life. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 602. ISBN 0-306-80804-8...
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    Baby Doll (category Films directed by Elia Kazan)
    black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted...
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    prompting Perkins to return to theatre. He made his Broadway debut in the Elia Kazan-directed Tea and Sympathy (1953), in which he played Tom Lee, a "sissy"...
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    its work refining and teaching method acting. It was founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis, and later directed by Lee Strasberg...
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    on Broadway on February 10, 1949, at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur...
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    ISBN 9780151011896. Young, Jeff (1999). Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films – Interviews with Elia Kazan. Newmarket Press. p. 224. ISBN 9781557043382...
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