Kazan's final drama to play out at Oscars

Chicago Sun-Times | March 21, 1999| | Copyright

HOLLYWOOD If Elia Kazan were directing a film of his Oscar night return to Hollywood, it would surely include a flashback sequence to one of the most dramatic days of his life: March 10, 1952. That night, exactly one month before he became an informer, Kazan was seated in the celebrity-studded audience as a best director nominee for "A Streetcar Named Desire."

As he looked around the Pantages Theater, he saw old friends everywhere. Humphrey Bogart and Montgomery Clift were there. So was 20th Century Fox chief Darryl Zanuck, who had made "Gentleman's Agreement," the film that earned Kazan ...

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