Kazan, Elia
Kazan, Elia( 1909–2003),Turkish-born theatrical and motion-picture director, graduated from Williams College (1930), and after study at Yale became an actor with the Group Theatre. Plays he directed include The Skin of Our Teeth, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and J.B.; motion pictures he directed include On the Waterfront and East of Eden. He also wrote novels: America, America (1962), somewhat in the form of a screenplay (and made into a film, which he directed, 1963), about a Greek youth escaping poverty and persecution in Turkey by coming to the U.S. at the opening of the 20th century; The Arrangement (1967); The Assassins (1972); The Understudy (1974); and Acts of Love (1978); and his own first play, The Chain (1983), partly about the making of a classic drama. His autobiography, titled Elia Kazan, appeared in 1988.
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