Vale: Elia Kazan
Mon, 29 Sept 2003, 01:10 pmjassep1 post in thread
Vale: Elia Kazan
Mon, 29 Sept 2003, 01:10 pmI was very saddened to see this article appear today. Kazan's influence on me has been enormous over the years, to the extent that I tried to get inside his mind by getting inside several of his plays as a director.
His influence on just about everybody working in this industry, whether amateur or professional is unmistakable... one of the great pioneers of 20th Century drama.
Jason Seperic
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Director Elia Kazan dies at 94
Prominent US film director Elia Kazan, who became one of the most honoured and influential figures in Broadway and Hollywood history, has died at the age of 94.
Kazan died at his home in Manhattan, although the cause was not immediately known.
"His wife and all his children were around," his lawyer Floria Lasky said.
"I suppose they expected it at some point, but it is always bad news, especially when a genius passes away."
His legendary Broadway productions included A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Tea and Sympathy and J. B.
His movie classics were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Viva Zapata!, East of Eden, Splendour in the Grass and America, America.
Kazan was shunned for decades by many in Hollywood for "naming names" of Communists he had met while he was a member of the party in the 1930s.
Even his Acadamy Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded in 1999, was controversial for many who remembered his testimony to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1952.
Kazan was born in Constantinople in 1909 and emigrated with his Greek parents to the United States a few years later. He studied drama at Yale University.
A leftist by conviction, Kazan joined the US Communist Party in 1934 and was active in left-wing artistic circles before World War II.
His claim to fame came with the establishment of the Actors Studio, where Kazan directed several two plays by Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949).
Celebrated playwrite Tennessee Williams worked with him on the production of his A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947.
When anti-Communist sentiment whipped up by Senator Joe McCarthy swept the United States, Kazan was one of so-called "friendly witnesses" appearing before a House of Representatives committee.
According to congressional documents, during his testimony, he named some fellow members of left-wing groups he was involved with in the 1930s.
As a result, these people were summoned before the committee, and those who refused to name names were blacklisted and in some cases sent to prison.
But Kazan's cooperation with authorities saved his artistic career.
-- AFP
His influence on just about everybody working in this industry, whether amateur or professional is unmistakable... one of the great pioneers of 20th Century drama.
Jason Seperic
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Director Elia Kazan dies at 94
Prominent US film director Elia Kazan, who became one of the most honoured and influential figures in Broadway and Hollywood history, has died at the age of 94.
Kazan died at his home in Manhattan, although the cause was not immediately known.
"His wife and all his children were around," his lawyer Floria Lasky said.
"I suppose they expected it at some point, but it is always bad news, especially when a genius passes away."
His legendary Broadway productions included A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Tea and Sympathy and J. B.
His movie classics were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Viva Zapata!, East of Eden, Splendour in the Grass and America, America.
Kazan was shunned for decades by many in Hollywood for "naming names" of Communists he had met while he was a member of the party in the 1930s.
Even his Acadamy Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded in 1999, was controversial for many who remembered his testimony to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1952.
Kazan was born in Constantinople in 1909 and emigrated with his Greek parents to the United States a few years later. He studied drama at Yale University.
A leftist by conviction, Kazan joined the US Communist Party in 1934 and was active in left-wing artistic circles before World War II.
His claim to fame came with the establishment of the Actors Studio, where Kazan directed several two plays by Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949).
Celebrated playwrite Tennessee Williams worked with him on the production of his A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947.
When anti-Communist sentiment whipped up by Senator Joe McCarthy swept the United States, Kazan was one of so-called "friendly witnesses" appearing before a House of Representatives committee.
According to congressional documents, during his testimony, he named some fellow members of left-wing groups he was involved with in the 1930s.
As a result, these people were summoned before the committee, and those who refused to name names were blacklisted and in some cases sent to prison.
But Kazan's cooperation with authorities saved his artistic career.
-- AFP
jassepMon, 29 Sept 2003, 01:10 pm
I was very saddened to see this article appear today. Kazan's influence on me has been enormous over the years, to the extent that I tried to get inside his mind by getting inside several of his plays as a director.
His influence on just about everybody working in this industry, whether amateur or professional is unmistakable... one of the great pioneers of 20th Century drama.
Jason Seperic
---------------------------
Director Elia Kazan dies at 94
Prominent US film director Elia Kazan, who became one of the most honoured and influential figures in Broadway and Hollywood history, has died at the age of 94.
Kazan died at his home in Manhattan, although the cause was not immediately known.
"His wife and all his children were around," his lawyer Floria Lasky said.
"I suppose they expected it at some point, but it is always bad news, especially when a genius passes away."
His legendary Broadway productions included A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Tea and Sympathy and J. B.
His movie classics were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Viva Zapata!, East of Eden, Splendour in the Grass and America, America.
Kazan was shunned for decades by many in Hollywood for "naming names" of Communists he had met while he was a member of the party in the 1930s.
Even his Acadamy Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded in 1999, was controversial for many who remembered his testimony to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1952.
Kazan was born in Constantinople in 1909 and emigrated with his Greek parents to the United States a few years later. He studied drama at Yale University.
A leftist by conviction, Kazan joined the US Communist Party in 1934 and was active in left-wing artistic circles before World War II.
His claim to fame came with the establishment of the Actors Studio, where Kazan directed several two plays by Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949).
Celebrated playwrite Tennessee Williams worked with him on the production of his A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947.
When anti-Communist sentiment whipped up by Senator Joe McCarthy swept the United States, Kazan was one of so-called "friendly witnesses" appearing before a House of Representatives committee.
According to congressional documents, during his testimony, he named some fellow members of left-wing groups he was involved with in the 1930s.
As a result, these people were summoned before the committee, and those who refused to name names were blacklisted and in some cases sent to prison.
But Kazan's cooperation with authorities saved his artistic career.
-- AFP
His influence on just about everybody working in this industry, whether amateur or professional is unmistakable... one of the great pioneers of 20th Century drama.
Jason Seperic
---------------------------
Director Elia Kazan dies at 94
Prominent US film director Elia Kazan, who became one of the most honoured and influential figures in Broadway and Hollywood history, has died at the age of 94.
Kazan died at his home in Manhattan, although the cause was not immediately known.
"His wife and all his children were around," his lawyer Floria Lasky said.
"I suppose they expected it at some point, but it is always bad news, especially when a genius passes away."
His legendary Broadway productions included A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Tea and Sympathy and J. B.
His movie classics were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Viva Zapata!, East of Eden, Splendour in the Grass and America, America.
Kazan was shunned for decades by many in Hollywood for "naming names" of Communists he had met while he was a member of the party in the 1930s.
Even his Acadamy Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded in 1999, was controversial for many who remembered his testimony to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1952.
Kazan was born in Constantinople in 1909 and emigrated with his Greek parents to the United States a few years later. He studied drama at Yale University.
A leftist by conviction, Kazan joined the US Communist Party in 1934 and was active in left-wing artistic circles before World War II.
His claim to fame came with the establishment of the Actors Studio, where Kazan directed several two plays by Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949).
Celebrated playwrite Tennessee Williams worked with him on the production of his A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947.
When anti-Communist sentiment whipped up by Senator Joe McCarthy swept the United States, Kazan was one of so-called "friendly witnesses" appearing before a House of Representatives committee.
According to congressional documents, during his testimony, he named some fellow members of left-wing groups he was involved with in the 1930s.
As a result, these people were summoned before the committee, and those who refused to name names were blacklisted and in some cases sent to prison.
But Kazan's cooperation with authorities saved his artistic career.
-- AFP