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What was Elia Kazan's first commercial feature film?

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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. — Elia Kazan Elia Kazan on the set of Panic in the Streets, 1950.

Elia Kazan's first commercial feature film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), which was produced by the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith.1