Word: elia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics' choice of Streetcar made Tennessee Williams the leading contender for the title of the nation's most gifted young playwright. The choice also heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick...
...nobody's surprise, Gentleman's Agreement was named the year's best picture. It also won Elia Kazan an Oscar for his direction. In accepting the Oscar for the film, 20th Century-Fox's long-memoried Darryl Zanuck firmly reminded everyone: "This makes up for an earlier disappointment . . . still a picture of which I am proud, Wilson...
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...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...high on most lists (Manhattan's critics put To Live in Peace in a special category as the year's best foreign-language film). Also listed by most reviewers: Odd Man Out (British), P'ox's Miracle on 34th Street and Boomerang! (also directed by Elia Kazan...