Elia Kazan

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Cotton-mill owner Archie Meighan, married to nineteen-year-old "Baby Doll", looks forward to the day his wife turns twenty and will finally allow him to sleep with her. But he has competition in the form of sly business competitor Silva Vacarro, who covets both Archie's cotton mill AND his young and beautiful wife.

Elia Kazan's own words begin the saga of young Stavros, who leaves his war-torn homeland behind to begin a new life. With his family's meager fortune and his father's blessing, Stavros encounters both allies and adversaries on a dramatic trek. He ultimately achieves his dream through sheer determination and will, thereby earning his nickname : America America.--Container

A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss.

Pinky is a nurse educated in the North and engaged to a doctor who doesn't know that she is part black. When she return to the South, she is shunned by both black and white and becomes a target for bigotry

Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land. Lutie marries him and they have a daughter Sara. Lutie goes alone to Denver where she and lawyer Chamberlain conceive a son Brock whom Jim later accepts with resignation. Long afterward Brock is killed by a posse and Susie brings Lutie and Jim together once more.

The story of the sexual awakening of two midwestern American teens, in an environment which didn't allow them to express their needs; an American philanderer in France falls for the innocent daughter of the detective hired to investigate his affairs; a safari leader in Africa is caught between the attentions of a single woman and a married woman; a dowdy spinster becomes a self-assured woman after psychiatric treatment only to embark on a doomed affair...

Chuck Glover, an idealistic young Tennessee Valley Authority administrator who comes to a small Tennessee town in the early 1930s to enforce the clearing of land that will be flooded by a new dam, must deal with Ella Garth, an aging matriarch who refuses to leave her home, his growing love for Ella's granddaughter, Carol, and the racial politics of hiring African American workers.