Elia Kazan Articles

Ted Donaldson, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Joan Blondell Q&A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY My favorite Joan Blondell performance is her Aunt Sissy in Elia Kazan’s 20th Century-Fox drama A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). How did she get that role? What was it like for her to work with Kazan, Peggy Ann [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to hand Oprah Winfrey a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the November 12 Governors Ball ceremony, has been widely criticized. Some have remarked that Winfrey, rumored as a possible host for the 2012 Oscarcast, is a television — not a film — personality. Others have complained that Winfrey doesn’t deserve the Humanitarian Award, period. Academy president [...]

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando Movies on TCM: THE WILD ONE, JULIUS CAESAR, THE CHASE Schedule (ET) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 AM THE FUGITIVE KIND (1960) A drifter ignites passions among the women of a Mississippi town. Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward. BW-121 mins, Letterbox Format 8:15 AM JULIUS CAESAR (1953) An [...]

Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller (top); Ted Donaldson, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (middle); Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, All the President’s Men (bottom) William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973, right, with Linda Blair), John Badham’s Saturday Night Fever (1977), Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Elia Kazan’s A Tree Grows in [...]