Defiant Success

It's established early on in Elia Kazan's Baby Doll  that Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) and his child bride Baby Doll (Carroll ...

Elia Kazan is always known for making making movies where the main character has society against him. Look at Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar ...

It's really sad that after his near-fatal car crash, studios were more than hesitant to cast Montgomery Clift in their projects. It wasn...

A number of movies from the 1950's managed to show the realities of media, whether it'd be movies ( Sunset Boulevard , The Bad and t...

I've only read three works of John Steinbeck ( Of Mice and Men , The Pearl , East of Eden ), but I know enough that he's one hell of...

I've recently taken an interest in plays. So far, I've read works by Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Tennessee Williams, the latter I...

This past Monday marked what would have been the 100th birthday of Academy Award-winning director Elia Kazan. The director is known for two ...