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Kazan, Elia
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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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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Kazan finds honor
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/26/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...this month for legendary director Elia Kazan - and as befits a Hollywood story, it...Sciences, proposing an honorary Oscar for Kazan. After several members seconded the nomination...Oscar ceremony. The decision to honor Kazan marked a dramatic turnaround in the artistic...
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Elia Kazan: A Biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Elia Kazan: A Biography by Richard Schickel. New...29.95. In the first line of Elia Kazan, Richard Schickel declares that he has...insights and an overview of the art of Ella Kazan not already available in Kazan's numerous...
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Kazan's final drama to play out at Oscars
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; HOLLYWOOD If Elia Kazan were directing a film of his Oscar night...one month before he became an informer, Kazan was seated in the celebrity-studded audience...s Agreement," the film that earned Kazan his first best director Oscar. Also on...
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KAZAN;S ROLE IN BLACKLIST EXTOLLED, DECRIED
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/14/1999; 700+ words
; PHOTO Director Eliai Kazan (center) with playwrights Tennesssee...and Arthur Miller in February 1967. Kazan often directed plays by Williams and Miller...VERSION. Phoebe Brand cannot excuse Elia Kazan. She cannot forget that nearly 47 years...
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KAZAN DESERVES APPLAUSE.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/10/1999; 700+ words
; Byline: JEFF JACOBY Elia Kazan had a choice in 1952: to stand with...reviled him ever since. On March 21, Kazan will receive the Oscar for lifetime achievement...is an honor long overdue. For years Kazan's enemies have kept him from receiving...
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Lainie Kazan looks back fondly on her wild ride
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 12/27/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...probably wild and wonderful -- but not more so than Lainie Kazan. Kazan ushers in 2007 from the tiny stage of San Francisco...after she bids adieu to 2006. If you know anything about Kazan, it's probably that she played the pushy mother in...
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ELIA KAZAN: A BiographyBOOKS / Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...International Herald Tribune 12-02-2005 ELIA KAZAN: A Biography By Richard Schickel510 pages...HarperCollins *A new biography of Elia Kazan is startling by its very existence. As the film critic Richard Schickel knows, Kazan's 1988 ''A Life'' a ''whirlwind...
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Zoe Kazan, on Broadway in `Come Back, Little Sheba,' has theater in her blood
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Zoe Kazan grew up in California in a family with deep...renowned On the Waterfront director Elia Kazan and her parents are both Hollywood screenwriters...Hollywood break. Instead, the 24-year-old Kazan headed to New York where she's portrayed...
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Kazan deserves his Oscar and our applause for being anticommunist
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; Elia Kazan had a choice in 1952: to stand with the...have reviled him ever since. On March 21, Kazan will receive an Oscar for lifetime achievement...it is an honor long overdue. For years Kazan's enemies have kept him from receiving...
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Kazan's Oscar Gets Praise, Protest
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Associated Press Writer AP Online 03-21-1999 Kazan's Oscar Gets Praise, Protest LOS ANGELES...Demonstrators for and against Elia Kazan getting a special Oscar carried signs and...decades would have quelled the debate over Kazan's decision to name names in a government...
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Kazan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
KAZAN Kazan is the capital and major historic, cultural, and economic center of the...meaning "bend" or "hook," referring to the bend of the Volga near which Kazan is located. The Bulgars founded Iski Kazan in the thirteenth century as...
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Kazan, Elia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
KAZAN, Elia Nationality: American. Born: Elia...Jarl) (role as himself) Publications By KAZAN: books — America America , New...1978. Anatolian , New York, 1982. Elia Kazan: A Life , New York and London, 1988. Beyond...
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Elia Kazan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Elia Kazan Elia Kazan (born 1909) is known as the preeminent director of works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Kazan emerged as the leading exponent of psychological realism via his film...
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Kazan-retto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kazan-retto see Volcano Islands .
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE USA, 1951 Director: Elia Kazan Production: Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.; black...Basinger, Jeanine, editor, Working with Kazan , Middletown, Connecticut, 1973. Kazan, Elia, Elia Kazan on What Makes a Director...
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