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ELIA KAZAN, 94; RESHAPED STAGE, CINEMA; ROILED INDUSTRY
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Elia Kazan, whose work as a director in film and theater during
the 1940s and 1950s helped effect a revolution in American acting,
and whose willingness to testify as a friendly witness before the
House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 made him a
political lightning rod for half a century, died yesterday at his
home in Manhattan. He was 94.
No cause of death was given.
The tangled relationship between artistic achievement and
political controversy in Mr. Kazan's career was illustrated in 1999
by the storm of protest that followed the announcement the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts ...
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