Excerpt from Elia Kazan: A Life
Idealism was our only answer to the Great Depression. Comradeship buffered us in a society many of us, for one reason or another, considered hostile. The Group was possible because it came at a time of hardship, it offered dignity and faith to young actors, but also because there was no alternative – no soap operas, no TV films, no big budget commercials, no voice-over quick-bucks.
