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...cinema version reunites the play's author, who worked on the script, its director, Elia Kazan, and most of the original principals, including Marlon (The Men) Brando as the tormented heroine's brutish brother-in-law, Kim Hunter as her well-balanced sister and Karl Maiden as her mama's-boy suitor. Even in casting Vivien Leigh in the leading role, thus brightening the marquee with a star more familiar to moviegoers than Broadway's Jessica Tandy, Director Kazan has chosen an actress who grew into the part in the London production of the play...
...rape episode by the censors, Director Kazan had to agree to change the play's ending to punish Kowalski, though the "punishment"-his wife's refusal to have anything more to do with him-seems not only mild but temporary. Elsewhere the movie's changes are more subtle. The play took no sides between Blanche and Kowalski; the film softens her into a more sympathetic figure, turns him into more of a loudmouthed heel. The new script also muffles the undertone of sex that accompanied the hostility between the two characters in the play...
...Hell." Director Kazan and many another of Barbara's friends in New York urged her to stay away from pictures. "She was not a commodity, a can of peas," says Kazan. "She was an actress." But Actress Bel Geddes had at last been granted a wish completely on her own terms. She was not to be turned off. "I wanted desperately to be a movie star," she admits today. She went to the coast determined, often quite touchily (as in the matter of dressing rooms), to be treated like a movie star. The one thing she could...
Miller's drama is one of constant transition, and a great deal of the success of these progressions depends on the supporting cast. In every case the transitions were effortless and inevitable--a fine tribute to the direction of Elia Kazan, the acting of the company, and the technical excellence of Miller's script. Jo Mielziner's setting and lighting play an integral part in the action...
Panic in the Streets. Director Elia Kazan's realistic thriller about a New Orleans manhunt for a criminal who is also a plague-carrier; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas (TIME...