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Jan 16, 2020 · Numerous actors and writers saw their lives and livelihoods destroyed; those who refused to “name names” were blacklisted, denied work. What makes Kazan an especially controversial figure was ...
He won the Venice Film Festival International Award as director, and the film also won two Academy Awards. Kazan had requested that Zero Mostel also act in the film, despite Mostel being "blacklisted" as a result of HCUA testimony a few years earlier.
Mar 22, 1999 · In an appearance that was considerably less dramatic than the controversy leading up to Sunday’s Academy Awards, the 89-year film titan received a mixed reaction as he took the stage to receive...
Jan 25, 2023 · As we’ve previously noted here on Open Culture, Orson Welles was not given to mincing words about his colleagues. And the older he got, the fewer words he minced, as evidenced by the clip above from a talk he gave at a Paris film school in 1982.
Sep 3, 2003 · On the surface, the controversy is straightforward. In 1952, Kazan appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and named eight of his old friends from the Group Theater who in...
Mar 22, 2024 · But when Kazan appeared, large swathes of the audience remained conspicuously seated, their hands by their laps and refusing to applaud.
Oct 9, 2019 · By Amir Abou-Jaoude. Oct. 9, 2019, 1:00 a.m. Director Elia Kazan was not equivocal when asked about the meaning of his film “On the Waterfront.” Kazan had been a left-wing activist in his...