Word: elias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being trained as they go, both in productions and in daily classes that have been going on for more than a year. The group's guiding lights are Robert Whitehead, who was one of Broadway's most successful producers (Member of the Wedding), and Director Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire). Its "executive consultant" is Critic-Director Har old Clurman (Waiting for Lefty). Its stage designer is Jo Mielziner, like the others one of the top men in his profession...
...candor poses for playgoer and critic alike the disconcerting task of judging the conduct of his life and his code for the conduct of life. Yet to dispute Miller's moral conclusions, or lack of them, is not to deny the jarring impact of his play, which Director Elia Kazan has charged with theatrical electricity. Fall is endlessly fascinating, emotionally harrowing, and consumingly committed to telling the truth as Miller sees...
...professor who prostituted his writing talents for the Communists and commits suicide when threatened with exposure, seems to be a combination of William K. Sherwood and Clifford Odets. Mickey, who decides to name all his leftist pals before the House Un-American Activities Committee, is stage and film director Elia Kazan (this act ruptured for some years the close friendship between Miller and Kazan). Ludwig Reiner, the confidant whose name Maggie invokes from time to time, is patently Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors' Studio and Marilyn Monroe's father-confessor...
...play is magnificently served by the meticulous staging of Elia Kazan and the stunning acting of the new Lincoln Center repertory company. The result is a kind of stylistically consistent ensemble playing such as we have not seen surpassed in this country since the movie On the Waterfront, also directed by Kazan. Right from the opening polyphonic susurrus, no detail is unimportant. Kazan may underline the similarity of the reactions to Quentin by his two vastly different wives through instructing Quentin to push both of them to the floor simultaneously; or he may devise a subtle background counterpoint against...
America America is an affecting and dramatically dynamic idea that shapes up as one of 1963's more disappointing films. Director Elia Kazan, born in Turkey of Greek parents, wanted to tell the story of every immigrant who ever sought refuge from oppression on America's shores. With obvious sincerity, Kazan the writer-producer chose as his model a character he could warm to: his uncle Avraam Elia, who at 20 fought his way out of Anatolian Turkey onto a westbound ship. But Kazan the director-perhaps from habit-does his own script a disservice, rendering...