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Happy Birthday, Elia Kazan
I have spent my life pretty much studying his movies, ever since I saw East of Eden when I was 12 years old. His involvement in The Group Theatre in the 1930s helped launch him as a director – even … Continue reading
Lee J. Cobb: “Like a giant moving the Rocky Mountains into position…”
I read Arthur Miller’s autobiography Timebends: A Life voraciously during my thesis acting project in graduate school. My project was a couple of different scenes from Miller’s play about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe: After the Fall. His passages about … Continue reading
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Tagged After the Fall, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Lee J. Cobb, Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, Timebends
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Marlon Brando: 1924 – 2004
I’ve always wanted to be an actor. Since I was a little kid. Many members of my family are in this profession – and have been – so it always seemed like a valid way to make a living, as … Continue reading
Kazan On Scripts
Excerpt from Elia Kazan: A Life: One must do one’s best and at a certain point say, ‘I’ve done all I can. I’m not going to make this better.’ I’ve noticed that the best pieces of writing for the theatre … Continue reading
That Roar
When “Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway for the first time – the world did not know yet what had hit it. Marlon Brando had arrived. Marlon Brando had been living in cold-water walk-up flats, shacking up with ballerinas, and … Continue reading
“Marlon is a genius, but she’s a worker and she will get better…”
So here is an addition to my recent-theme of “first productions of great American plays” – (Death of a Salesman here, and Glass Menagerie here and here) Here’s an excerpt from Elia Kazan’s autobiography, regarding the opening of Streetcar Named … Continue reading
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Tagged Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Streetcar Named Desire
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