Word: kazan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Truckline's producers, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan, tore into the critics. In an angry New York Times ad they announced they would close Truckline this week, but not "without saying a few things that are on our minds." Sample...
...Once long ago I was speaking in Kazan province. A woman said: 'Here you are walking in good boots and where are boots for us?' In those days I really had good boots, but this woman was well dressed, too. I looked at her and said: 'What do you want? That the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, the representative of the supreme power, should come to you in straw shoes?' People around cried: 'Right! Right!' Here is a stupid woman not to understand that...
Under Elia Kazan's (The Skin of Our Teeth, Jacobowsky and the Colonel) able direction, a good cast works hard and well. Topping it, in the role of the Senator's younger daughter, is Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes' charming, 22-year-old daughter Barbara. With only a brief career of small parts behind her, she may well stand out as the best ingenue of the season...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok...
...20th Century-Fox), coming from a big Hollywood studio, is man-bites-dog news. Instead of sweetening up Betty Smith's exuberant best-seller and furnishing ten sure laughs for every carefully shock-absorbed tear, such ex-New Yorkers as Tess Slesinger, one of the writers, and Elia Kazan, the director, have turned it into a sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly...