Despite acting in important plays like Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" and "Golden Boy" and even tackling the movies with roles in "City For Conquest" (1940) and "Blues in the Night" (1941), both helmed by Anatole Litvak, Elia Kazan found he could achieve much greater range by shaping others' acting than by honing his own. The source for his inspired directing was the revolutionary acting technique known as the Method, which he encountered at NYC's influential Group Theatre, and the Greek immigrant who had grown up feeling like an outsider rose to prominence as the preeminent proponent of
