Full name: Elia Kazan: A Life

Author: Elia Kazan Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Play Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306808043 0306808048

Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, John Steinbeck and Darryl Zanuck, and describes his directing "style" as he sees it, in terms of position, movement, pace, rhythm and his own limitations. Kazan also retraces his own decision to inform for the House Un-American Activities Committee, illuminating much of what may be obscured in McCarthy literature. Similar books: Ingrid Bergman: My Story by Ingrid Bergman Charmed Lives by Michael Korda Slim by Slim Keith Tallulah by Tallulah Bankhead Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain My Life in Three Acts by Helen Hayes Shelley also known as Shirley by Shelley Winters And Furthermore by Judi Dench By Myself by Lauren Bacall The Ragman's Son by Kirk Douglas Brando by Marlon Brando Doris Day by A. E. Hotchner Snakes and Ladders by Dirk Bogarde Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever My Name Escapes Me by Alec Guinness Act One by Moss Hart Patti LuPone by Patti LuPone Ghost Light by Frank Rich Being an Actor by Simon Callow Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser