Orson always getting haughty about Elia Kazan is one of my favorite things in the world. pic.twitter.com/yKf2tnJpVY— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 11, 2020
He gave the House Un-American Activities Committee names of people he worked with who were members of the Communist Party who were subsequently blacklisted. Then he made a movie called On The Waterfront about a brave dockworker who stands up to his corrupt Union boss as a thinly-veiled defense of it.
What did Kazan do?
He gave the House Un-American Activities Committee names of people he worked with who were members of the Communist Party who were subsequently blacklisted. Then he made a movie called On The Waterfront about a brave dockworker who stands up to his corrupt Union boss as a thinly-veiled defense of it.