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Elia Kazan or Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου was born 110 years ago in Constantinople (Istanbul) in the once powerful Ottoman Empire, by Greek parents. He arrived with his parents to the United States in July 1913. He would later become as The New York Times describes "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
"So it goes in America: great plans in youth, realism at the end"
After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theatre in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947. With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced "Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg.
He also acted in a few movies, for example Blues in the Night 1941.
Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins.
A reminder of his movies:
People of the Cumberland 1937 documentary short, where Kazan was assistant director.
The film was designed to support the U.S. labor union movement and it mixes non-fiction filmmaking and dramatic re-enactions.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945, was Elia Kazan's feature debut as director.
Adapted from the 1943 novel by Betty Smith, the period drama focuses on an impoverished, but aspirational, second-generation Irish-American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century.
Peggy Ann Garner received the Academy Juvenile Award for her performance as Francie Nolan, the adolescent girl at the center of the coming-of-age story. Other stars were Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, and James Dunn, who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Francie's father.
The Sea of Grass 1947, a Western drama film set in the American Southwest.
It was based on a 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The film starred Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Melvyn Douglas.
Kazan was reportedly displeased with the resulting film and discouraged people from seeing it.
Boomerang! 1947, a crime film noir based on the true story of a vagrant who was accused of murder by an incompetent police force, only to be found not guilty through the efforts of the prosecutor. It starred Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy and Jane Wyatt.
The film was based on a story (written by Fulton Oursler, credited as "Anthony Abbot") in Reader's Digest and was shot largely in Stamford, Connecticut after Kazan was denied permission to film in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the actual events occurred.
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Gentleman's Agreement 1947, a drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling novel of the same name.
It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread distrust and dislike of Jews in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut.
It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).
The movie was controversial in its time, as was a similar film on the same subject, Crossfire, which was released the same year.
It also starred Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Sam Jaffe and Albert Dekker.
Pinky 1949, a race drama starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, played by Crain. All three actresses were nominated for the Academy Award, Crain for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Barrymore and Waters for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
It was adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel "Quality".
It was released by Twentieth Century Fox to both critical acclaim and controversy.
Panic in the Streets 1950, a film noir andwas shot exclusively on locations in New Orleans, Louisiana, and features numerous New Orleans citizens in speaking and non-speaking roles.
It tells the story of Lieutenant Commander Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (played by Richard Widmark) and a police captain (Paul Douglas) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an index case. Co-stars include Barbara Bel Geddes (as Reed's wife Nancy), Jack Palance (in his film debut) and Zero Mostel, the latter two play associates of the victim who had prompted the investigation. The film was also the debut of Tommy Rettig, who played the Reeds' son.
It won the Venice Film Festival International Award for Elia Kazan.
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951, a drama adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name.
The film earned an estimated $4,250,000 at the US and Canadian box office in 1951, making it the fifth biggest hit of the year.
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Upon release of the film, Marlon Brando, virtually unknown at the time of the play's casting, rose to prominence as a major Hollywood film star.
It also starred Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.
Kazan was nominated for an Oscar.
At the 1951 Venice Film Festival Kazan was awarded a Special Jury Prize "For having produced a stage play on screen, poetically interpreting the humanity of the characters, thanks to masterly direction".
Viva Zapata! 1952, a biographical film starring Marlon Brando. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon's book "Zapata the Unconquerable" as a guide. The cast included Jean Peters and, in an Academy Award-winning performance, Anthony Quinn.
It's a fictionalized account of the life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death.
Man on a Tightrope 1953, a drama starring Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Manjou and Richard Boone.
Based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson. Paterson based his true story, which first appeared as the magazine novelette "International Incident", on the escape of the Circus Brumbach from East Germany in 1950.
Shot on location in Bavaria, Germany, authentic acts were used, and the entire Brumbach Circus was employed for the production. The original plot to escape in small increments across the border was the actual means used by the Circus Brumbach in their escape.
At The Berlin Film Festival in 1953, Kazan was awarded a "Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin".
On the Waterfront 1954, a crime drama starring Marlon Brando and featured Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut.
The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey.
It was a critical and commercial success. It received twelve Academy Award nominations and won eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan.
In 1989, On the Waterfront was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
East of Eden 1955, loosely based on the second half of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of "Cain and Abel".
It starred Julie Harris, James Dean (in his first major screen role), and Raymond Massey. It also featured Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, and Jo Van Fleet,
Kazan won an award at The Cannes Film Festival 1955 for Best Dramatic Film
In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Baby Doll 1956, a black comedy drama starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. The film also features Mildred Dunnock and Rip Torn. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.
The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi; after one of the men commits arson against the other's gin, the owner retaliates by attempting to seduce the arsonist's nineteen-year-old virgin bride with the hopes of receiving an admission by her of her husband's guilt.
The film was controversial when it was released due to its implicit sexual themes, provoking a largely successful effort to ban it, waged by the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. Nevertheless, the film received multiple nominations for major awards and performed decently at the box office.
Kazan won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
The film is credited with originating the name and popularity of the babydoll nightgown, which derives from the costume worn by Baker's character.
A Face in the Crowd 1957, a drama film starring Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg and is based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler" from the collection "Some Faces in the Crowd" from 1953.
The story centers on a drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes who is discovered by the producer (Neal) of a small-market radio program in rural northeast Arkansas. Rhodes ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television. The character was inspired by Schulberg's acquaintance with Will Rogers Jr. who admitted his famous father's "man of the people" image was a facade.
The film launched Griffith into stardom, but earned mixed reviews upon its original release. Later decades have seen favorable reappraisals of the movie, and, in 2008, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Wild River 1960, a drama starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi and Jay C. Flippen. It also marked Bruce Dern's film debut.
The film was shot on location in the Tennessee Valley, and was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels: Borden Deal's "Dunbar's Cove" and William Bradford Huie's "Mud on the Stars", drawing for plot from Deal's story of a battle of wills between the nascent Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old land owners, and from Huie's study of a rural Southern matriarchal family for characters and their reaction to destruction of their land.
In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Splendor in the Grass 1961, a drama film that tells a story of a teenage girl navigating her feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and who won an Oscar for his screenplay.
It starred Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty and Pat Hingle.
In 2002, the American Film Institute ranked Splendor in the Grass number 47 on its list of the top 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time.
America America
1963, a dramatic film directed, produced and written by Kazan, adapted from his own book, published in 1962.
Inspired by the life of Kazan's uncle, Avraam Elia Kazantzoglou, the director uses little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis, twenty-two years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie.
The production, hampered by loss of its original financial backers, on-location hostility from Turkish authorities and onlookers, as well as other problems, continued into 1963. Powerful elements within Turkey came to be convinced that the country's national institutions and historical perspective upon turn of the 20th century events would be unfavorably portrayed by the Greek director and, when Kazan decided to transfer the troubled production to Greece, customs officials confiscated the cans of what they considered to be finished film, but owing to a prescient switch of labels between exposed and unexposed product, the valuable cargo survived.
Kazan won a Golden Globe for Best Director.
A commercial disaster upon release that made Kazan more and more distant from moviemaking, and made him concentrating more on writing.
The Arrangement 1969, drama based upon Kazan's 1967 novel of the same title.
It tells the story of a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction, Evangelos Arness, who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson." He is portrayed by Kirk Douglas.
Eddie is suicidal and slowly having a psychotic breakdown. He is miserable at home in his marriage to his wife, Florence, played by Deborah Kerr, and with his career. He is engaged in a torrid affair with his mistress and co-worker Gwen (Faye Dunaway), and is forced to re-evaluate his life and its priorities while dealing with his willful and aging father (Richard Boone).
The movie wasn't favored by the critics, but performed acceptably at the box-office.
The Visitors 1972, Kazan used an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, and Lang's subsequent book "Casualties of War", as a jumping-off point for this film, a drama starring Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods and Steve Railsback.
It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
Commercially it hardly performed at all.
The Last Tycoon 1976, drama based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last, unfinished novel, and was the last film Kazan directed, even though he lived until 2003.
It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Ray Milland, Dana Andrews, John Carradine and Ingrid Boulting.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
The movie got mixed reviews from the critics and bombed at the box-office.
Thanks for watching!
Thoughts, ideas, lists, favorits, oppinions and everything else Elia Kazan are very very welcome!
"So it goes in America: great plans in youth, realism at the end"
After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theatre in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947. With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced "Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg.
He also acted in a few movies, for example Blues in the Night 1941.
Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins.
A reminder of his movies:
People of the Cumberland 1937 documentary short, where Kazan was assistant director.
The film was designed to support the U.S. labor union movement and it mixes non-fiction filmmaking and dramatic re-enactions.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945, was Elia Kazan's feature debut as director.
Adapted from the 1943 novel by Betty Smith, the period drama focuses on an impoverished, but aspirational, second-generation Irish-American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century.
Peggy Ann Garner received the Academy Juvenile Award for her performance as Francie Nolan, the adolescent girl at the center of the coming-of-age story. Other stars were Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, and James Dunn, who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Francie's father.
The Sea of Grass 1947, a Western drama film set in the American Southwest.
It was based on a 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The film starred Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Melvyn Douglas.
Kazan was reportedly displeased with the resulting film and discouraged people from seeing it.
Boomerang! 1947, a crime film noir based on the true story of a vagrant who was accused of murder by an incompetent police force, only to be found not guilty through the efforts of the prosecutor. It starred Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy and Jane Wyatt.
The film was based on a story (written by Fulton Oursler, credited as "Anthony Abbot") in Reader's Digest and was shot largely in Stamford, Connecticut after Kazan was denied permission to film in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the actual events occurred.
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Gentleman's Agreement 1947, a drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling novel of the same name.
It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread distrust and dislike of Jews in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut.
It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).
The movie was controversial in its time, as was a similar film on the same subject, Crossfire, which was released the same year.
It also starred Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Sam Jaffe and Albert Dekker.
Pinky 1949, a race drama starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, played by Crain. All three actresses were nominated for the Academy Award, Crain for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Barrymore and Waters for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
It was adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel "Quality".
It was released by Twentieth Century Fox to both critical acclaim and controversy.
Panic in the Streets 1950, a film noir andwas shot exclusively on locations in New Orleans, Louisiana, and features numerous New Orleans citizens in speaking and non-speaking roles.
It tells the story of Lieutenant Commander Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (played by Richard Widmark) and a police captain (Paul Douglas) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an index case. Co-stars include Barbara Bel Geddes (as Reed's wife Nancy), Jack Palance (in his film debut) and Zero Mostel, the latter two play associates of the victim who had prompted the investigation. The film was also the debut of Tommy Rettig, who played the Reeds' son.
It won the Venice Film Festival International Award for Elia Kazan.
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951, a drama adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name.
The film earned an estimated $4,250,000 at the US and Canadian box office in 1951, making it the fifth biggest hit of the year.
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Upon release of the film, Marlon Brando, virtually unknown at the time of the play's casting, rose to prominence as a major Hollywood film star.
It also starred Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.
Kazan was nominated for an Oscar.
At the 1951 Venice Film Festival Kazan was awarded a Special Jury Prize "For having produced a stage play on screen, poetically interpreting the humanity of the characters, thanks to masterly direction".
Viva Zapata! 1952, a biographical film starring Marlon Brando. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon's book "Zapata the Unconquerable" as a guide. The cast included Jean Peters and, in an Academy Award-winning performance, Anthony Quinn.
It's a fictionalized account of the life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death.
Man on a Tightrope 1953, a drama starring Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Manjou and Richard Boone.
Based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson. Paterson based his true story, which first appeared as the magazine novelette "International Incident", on the escape of the Circus Brumbach from East Germany in 1950.
Shot on location in Bavaria, Germany, authentic acts were used, and the entire Brumbach Circus was employed for the production. The original plot to escape in small increments across the border was the actual means used by the Circus Brumbach in their escape.
At The Berlin Film Festival in 1953, Kazan was awarded a "Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin".
On the Waterfront 1954, a crime drama starring Marlon Brando and featured Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut.
The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey.
It was a critical and commercial success. It received twelve Academy Award nominations and won eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan.
In 1989, On the Waterfront was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
East of Eden 1955, loosely based on the second half of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of "Cain and Abel".
It starred Julie Harris, James Dean (in his first major screen role), and Raymond Massey. It also featured Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, and Jo Van Fleet,
Kazan won an award at The Cannes Film Festival 1955 for Best Dramatic Film
In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Baby Doll 1956, a black comedy drama starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. The film also features Mildred Dunnock and Rip Torn. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.
The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi; after one of the men commits arson against the other's gin, the owner retaliates by attempting to seduce the arsonist's nineteen-year-old virgin bride with the hopes of receiving an admission by her of her husband's guilt.
The film was controversial when it was released due to its implicit sexual themes, provoking a largely successful effort to ban it, waged by the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. Nevertheless, the film received multiple nominations for major awards and performed decently at the box office.
Kazan won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
The film is credited with originating the name and popularity of the babydoll nightgown, which derives from the costume worn by Baker's character.
A Face in the Crowd 1957, a drama film starring Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg and is based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler" from the collection "Some Faces in the Crowd" from 1953.
The story centers on a drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes who is discovered by the producer (Neal) of a small-market radio program in rural northeast Arkansas. Rhodes ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television. The character was inspired by Schulberg's acquaintance with Will Rogers Jr. who admitted his famous father's "man of the people" image was a facade.
The film launched Griffith into stardom, but earned mixed reviews upon its original release. Later decades have seen favorable reappraisals of the movie, and, in 2008, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Wild River 1960, a drama starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi and Jay C. Flippen. It also marked Bruce Dern's film debut.
The film was shot on location in the Tennessee Valley, and was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels: Borden Deal's "Dunbar's Cove" and William Bradford Huie's "Mud on the Stars", drawing for plot from Deal's story of a battle of wills between the nascent Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old land owners, and from Huie's study of a rural Southern matriarchal family for characters and their reaction to destruction of their land.
In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Splendor in the Grass 1961, a drama film that tells a story of a teenage girl navigating her feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and who won an Oscar for his screenplay.
It starred Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty and Pat Hingle.
In 2002, the American Film Institute ranked Splendor in the Grass number 47 on its list of the top 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time.
America America
1963, a dramatic film directed, produced and written by Kazan, adapted from his own book, published in 1962.
Inspired by the life of Kazan's uncle, Avraam Elia Kazantzoglou, the director uses little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis, twenty-two years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie.
The production, hampered by loss of its original financial backers, on-location hostility from Turkish authorities and onlookers, as well as other problems, continued into 1963. Powerful elements within Turkey came to be convinced that the country's national institutions and historical perspective upon turn of the 20th century events would be unfavorably portrayed by the Greek director and, when Kazan decided to transfer the troubled production to Greece, customs officials confiscated the cans of what they considered to be finished film, but owing to a prescient switch of labels between exposed and unexposed product, the valuable cargo survived.
Kazan won a Golden Globe for Best Director.
A commercial disaster upon release that made Kazan more and more distant from moviemaking, and made him concentrating more on writing.
The Arrangement 1969, drama based upon Kazan's 1967 novel of the same title.
It tells the story of a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction, Evangelos Arness, who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson." He is portrayed by Kirk Douglas.
Eddie is suicidal and slowly having a psychotic breakdown. He is miserable at home in his marriage to his wife, Florence, played by Deborah Kerr, and with his career. He is engaged in a torrid affair with his mistress and co-worker Gwen (Faye Dunaway), and is forced to re-evaluate his life and its priorities while dealing with his willful and aging father (Richard Boone).
The movie wasn't favored by the critics, but performed acceptably at the box-office.
The Visitors 1972, Kazan used an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, and Lang's subsequent book "Casualties of War", as a jumping-off point for this film, a drama starring Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods and Steve Railsback.
It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
Commercially it hardly performed at all.
The Last Tycoon 1976, drama based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last, unfinished novel, and was the last film Kazan directed, even though he lived until 2003.
It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Ray Milland, Dana Andrews, John Carradine and Ingrid Boulting.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
The movie got mixed reviews from the critics and bombed at the box-office.
Thanks for watching!
Thoughts, ideas, lists, favorits, oppinions and everything else Elia Kazan are very very welcome!
