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Elia Kazan (1909-2003) was born Elias Kazantzoglou in Istanbul, which at that time was part of the Ottoman Empire, although he was ethnically Greek.

 His parents emigrated to the United States when Kazan was four.  His mother came from a family of cotton merchants, and his father was sold rugs.   Kazan attended public school and put himself through college, eventually attending the Yale University School of Drama.

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 He moved to New York and joined the Group Theater.  He made a name for himself as a stage director, directing plays like Miller's Death of a Salesman, Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.

In 1947, Kazan was one of the founders of the Actors Studio, among whose first students were Marlon Brando and James Dean.

 Kazan cast Brando in the the theater production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

In the mid-1940's Kazan began his career as a film director.  In 1951,