I don’t think I could have made ‘On the Waterfront’ if I hadn’t done ‘Panic in the Streets.’ -- Director Elia Kazan ...

The "On the Waterfront" director received an Honorary Oscar for his career, decades after he testified at the House ...

About Elia Kazan Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). He influenced the films ...

Vivid, pungent and forceful, Elia Kazan’s letters immerse us in the life of a working director — and not just any director. Kazan was an important, influential figure in 20th-century American ...

In letters to the likes of Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams, the director of On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire was shrewd about just about everything but himself. Ah, artists ...

I learned to grieve the end of summer by watching Elia Kazan’s Wild River. Released by 20th Century Fox in 1960, Kazan’s ...

Elia Kazan has been called the movies’ greatest director of American actors, but the 15 films in Fox’s Elia Kazan Collection make a compelling case that the description actually underestimates ...

Edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin. Knopf, $40 (672p) ISBN 978-0-307-26716-0 This collection of letters written by acclaimed director Elia Kazan chronicles his life from his start ...

The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan edited by Albert J Devlin with Marlene J Devlin 650pp, Knopf, Telegraph offer price: £27 (PLUS £1.35 p&p) 0844 871 1515 (RRP £30, ebook £11.39).

They are worth rediscovering. Tom Moran is a freelance writer who lives in New York. “The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan” Edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin, Knopf, 650 pages, $40 ...

Elia was thunderously effective. Everyone was sure we had picked him off a taxi to play the part. Kazan also acted in Odets's plays Paradise Lost (1935), Golden Boy (1937) and Night Music (1940 ...

The "On the Waterfront" director received an Honorary Oscar for his career, decades after he testified at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952.