Elia Kazan

...film's PR agency, 42 West, from launching a guerilla campaign to get it some attention. Originally slated to be directed by Elia Kazan and star Julie Harris, the film version of Tennessee Williams' original screenplay got derailed in the...

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...0844 482 5170, www.catwestend.com 1 Barbara Bel Geddes brought Maggie to life in the Broadway premiere in 1955, directed by Elia Kazan. An instant succes de scandale because of Bel Geddes's palpable sexual desire and the...

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...the Guild Theatre. Reginal Mason plays Henry Higgins, and the production runs 143 performances. 1932 Elia Kazan, listed in the Playbill as "E. Kazan," makes his Broadway debut in Chrysalis, a short-lived drama with Humphrey Bogart and...

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...Pyjamas', a 2008 British film, was the inaugural film. About 180 movies would be screened this time, including a retrospective on Elia Kazan. A photo exhibition of Bimal Roy's films is also being held. (c) 2009 Published with permission...

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...of modern architecture on the Harvard campus, the HFA's access to rare prints allows for such treats as a complete retrospective of Elia Kazan's work. Recent guests included William Friedkin, who spun story after story about his masterpiece,...

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...who have never encountered it. It's one of the three indispensable film versions of great American dramatic plays, along with Elia Kazan's adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Sidney Lumet's uncut version of "Long Day's Journey...

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...work with them. Now, with Cary Grant, it was hard to not find things to love about him." Her famous ingenue debut as young Edie in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront: "I had done theater and mostly live television and again, I was from the...

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...as Paddy Chayefsky's "Network," but it's Must See viewing for serious students of TV. It's directed by the enormously talented Elia Kazan, who also directed "Streetcar Named Desire," "Gentleman's Agreement," and "On the Waterfront." I...

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..."A Place in the Sun" and then again in 1956 for "Baby Doll," losing to "Around the World In 80 Days." Both movies were directed by Elia Kazan, and the original plan in 1957 was to see a reteaming of the pair on "Teardrop," reportedly to star...

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...receive a lifetime achievement award wasn't about to say he was sorry. And he never did. When director Elia Kazan died six years ago at age 94, he took with him whatever regrets he might have had about naming names before the House Committee...

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