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...34th Street. Other Academy Awards go to Ronald Colman for Best Actor in A Double Life, Loretta Young as Best Actress in The Farmer's Daughter, Edmund Gwenn as Best Supporting Actor in Miracle on 34th Street and Celeste Holm for Best Supporting Actress in Gentleman's Agreement. Elia Kazan won Best Director for his work on Gentleman's Agreement...
...Agassiz production of A Streetcar Named Desire bravely seeks to resurrect Tenessee Williams' play from its status as a silver screen sacred cow. The production is buoyed by a strong cast and well-wrought set, but lacks the direction to challenge Elia Kazan's 1951 interpretation or reclaim it for a modern audience...
...speak your thoughts. And he drove the old Eisenhower crowd nuts. But what we read then as rebelliousness was really confusion. Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother -- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous -- and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict. Elia Kazan, the director who did the most to shape Brando's work, once said, "He's uncertain of himself and he's passionate, both at the same time...
...LAINIE KAZAN, Barbra Streisand's understudy, subbed for two shows. The Brooklyn-born Kazan was a hit with audiences. Streisand telegraphed: WE WERE TOLD TREES GROW IN BROOKLYN, BUT WE KNOW BETTER. STARS...
...additional minutes show the intensity which Williams and Kazan originally intended for the film. This is one of the few restorations made by a major film company which improves the original version. Leigh deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Blanche. She showed Blanche's struggle to maintain her Southern politesse until the bitter, insane end. Kim Hunter as Stella won the Best Supporting Actress while Karl Malden, playing Mitchell, the naive, yet passionate love interest of Blanche, won the Best Supporting Actor award...