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...then he told of the problems he faced today. "My story begins in October of 1951," he said. Shortly after he had met with the "undercover boycott"--threatened censorship of "Streetcar Named Desire" by the Catholic League of Decency, he was called before the McCarran Committee to testify on his Communist activities...
Kazan directed both the mage and screen productions of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He was awarded an Oscar" in 1947 for his direction of Gentleman's Agreement." Other screen plays he has directed include "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Viva Zapata...
...find persons named Piersall, Lepcio, and Throneberry performing in place of the Doerrs, Peskys, Williamses, and Goodmans of former days, but a team can not do too much better than first place. To get to Fenway Park, you Rapidly Transit to Park Street, go upstairs, and take a Streetcar Named Watertown to Kenmore Square...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...
They glanced at the package: it was addressed to Chancellor Adenauer at Bonn. When the boys noticed that their benefactor, instead of running for a train, was still following them, their suspicions solidified. At the first street corner, they showed their package to a streetcar supervisor standing by. The supervisor turned it over to some policemen in a prowl-car. The cops put in a call to Fireman Karl Reichert, explosives expert...