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Who wrote the screenplay for Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata!?

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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.

The screenplay for the 1952 film Viva Zapata!, directed by Elia Kazan, was written by the novelist John Steinbeck.12