Movie: An American Named Kazan

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Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Self (archive footage)

Patricia Bosworth
Patricia Bosworth

Self

Jay Cocks
Jay Cocks

Self

James Gray
James Gray

Self

Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier

Self

Michel Ciment
Michel Ciment

Self

Jeanine Basinger
Jeanine Basinger

Self

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    Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War II. Actor, theater director, filmmaker, writer, he is the founder of Actor’s Studio, a collaborator of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and a director who discovered Marlon Brando and James Dean.

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