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...Face in the Crowd (Newtown; Warner) is the sort of cure that almost makes the disease desirable, even when the disease is as painful as the commercial phoniness that currently afflicts some parts of U.S. culture. The doctor in this case is Elia Kazan, a well-known specialist in social disorders who made On the Waterfront and Baby Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with...
...school play) moved to Florida, where she tried night club dancing. Then she went alone to New York, where she was a flop on TV and tried out for a little group called Actor's Studio. She got parts in two Broadway plays as a result, and Elia Kazan happened by one day and screen-tested...
...wake a number of problems. For one thing, though the play has not been staged right here before, it has received a good many recent productions, and comparison thus becomes inevitable. For another, it has become pretty thoroughly identified with the ultra-naturalistic school of acting developed by Elia Kazan and the Actors' Studio in New York, one graduate of which is the play's original star, Marlon Brando. The reasons for this identification are more than a historical accident--Williams had the school's work in mind when he wrote his drama...
TIME'S Dec. 24 review of Baby Doll is sickening. When you say an admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
...does so while remaining well within the bounds of what is acceptable on the modern screen or stage. The real trouble with the film lies in Williams' failure to make his people anything more than corrupt. They have more medical than dramatic interest--or at least they did until Elia Kazan got to work on them...