Ella Kazan: As A Stage Director



Ella Kazan: As A Stage Director

Elia Kazan (1909 - 2003)

Elia Kazan is famous for his contribution as a stage director. He has directed various plays, dramas and films which became reason for his never ending success. Throughout his life he has been known for his work and even after his death he is remembered. He was born in Turkey to Greek parents, and Elia Kazan arrived in New York in 1913. After the 1929 crisis, he joined the Communist Party and attended the Yale Drama School, where in addition to writing short pieces, he learned the trades of designer, lighting and stage manager. They become familiar with the system of Constantine Stanislavski by integrating the Group Theater. After its successful staging of The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) by Thornton Wilder, the intense theatrical activity of Kazan on Broadway earned him his reputation. During this period, he founded the Actor's Studio with Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis will join Lee Strasberg in 1948, this school teaches the method of psycho Stanislavsky and becomes a breeding ground for players who make their film debut in the fifties Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe. Motivated by issues of social and political theater, this actor, director and novelist American filmmaker has created major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams or Death of a Salesman (1949) of Arthur Miller (Young, 2001).

Background

Elia Kazan, the son of Turkish-greek immigrants, was born in Constantinople, September 7, 1909. He arrived in New York at age 4, with parents who are starting a thriving trade in carpets. He studied theater at university, entering into avant-garde art groups where does all, by the actor to director. Meanwhile, he also joined the Communist Party. In 40s is known as the first successful Broadway staging of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Death of a Salesman." In 1945, he began to devote himself almost exclusively to the movies, working with Fox. His first film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), the story of a family of Irish immigrants. The themes of immigration and the social are the thread of his earlier works, like Boomerang, the weapon that kills (1947). Gentleman (1947), a pamphlet against anti-Semitism, but the first gives him great satisfaction Professional: the Oscar for directing. But the real breakthrough came with two films that launched him and Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and On the Waterfront (Freer, 2009). 

Discussion

The acting director Elia Kazan was the forerunner of many high-profile stars Carroll Baker, Warren Beatty, James Dean, Julie Harris and Lee Remick. They all came from the forge of the Actor's Actors Studio, founded the Kazan 1947th The Method - developed by Stanislavsky method still has worldwide recognition. 

In 1952, He was ambiguous, with a thousand paradoxes in life and in his work,right in the McCarthy era. Kazan complaint colleagues and friends working in the anti-communist purge the world of American culture. He will try to explain his reasons in a few movies, such as the Waterfront and Viva Zapata, which can also be read as the need to compromise with the ...