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Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him. James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn John Garfield, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Celeste Holm seated and standing around a dining table, smiling, in a scene from Gentleman's Agreement (1947). Waters, Ethel Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski stand close together in an emotional scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951. Hunter, Kim; Brando, Marlon: A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata sits shirtless on a bed beside Jean Peters as Josefa Zapata in a dramatic scene from the film Viva Zapata! directed by Elia Kazan. Thomas Handley, Marlon Brando, and Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront Lee J. Cobb and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront James Dean as Cal Trask and Julie Harris as Abra stand close together, smiling, in a fairground scene from the film East of Eden (1955).
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Elia Kazan: References & Edit History

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Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Elia Kazan. Jul 31, 2026
Anniversary information added. Sep 24, 2025
Anniversary information added. Sep 03, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - Celebrating 30 Years of 'Fresh Air': Filmmaker and Theater Legend Elia Kazan. Jul 11, 2025
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at COD - ESSAI - Exploring the Auteur Elia Kazan (PDF). Mar 19, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Desert Island Discs - Elia Kazan. Feb 05, 2025
Add new Web site: Harvard Film Archive - The Complete Elia Kazan. Nov 12, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Reel Classics - Elia Kazan. Mar 01, 2024
Link added. Feb 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Senses of Cinema - Elia Kazan. Dec 08, 2022
Added cross-references. Nov 25, 2019
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Elia Kazan. Feb 14, 2019
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Elia Kazan, Influential Director, Is Dead at 94. Jan 02, 2017
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Elia Kazan, an actor's director. Jan 02, 2017
Added photographs. Jun 12, 2014
Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - Elia Kazan. Mar 18, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Elia Kazan, 1909-2003. Mar 18, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Elia Kazan. Mar 18, 2014
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Elia Kazan. Mar 18, 2014
Deleted photograph. Nov 20, 2013
Article thoroughly revised. Sep 04, 2013
Added photograph. Feb 14, 2012
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Elia Kazan. Jul 28, 2010
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Elia Kazan. Jul 28, 2010
Media added. Jan 08, 2007
Article revised. Nov 14, 2003
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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