1. Molly Day Kazan was an American dramatist and the first wife of director Elia Kazan.
11 Facts About Molly Kazan
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Molly Kazan's grandparents were Elizabeth and Thomas Anthony Thacher, a classicist and college administrator.
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Molly Kazan graduated from Vassar College and attended the Yale Drama School for two years, where she met Elia Molly Kazan.
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Molly Kazan was dating Elia's friend and roommate Alan Baxter at the time, until Molly Kazan left Baxter for Elia.
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Molly Day Kazan was the head of the playwriting division of Actors Studio for several years before resigning in May 1962.
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Molly Kazan wrote the play The Egghead in 1957, which ran for twenty-one performances on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
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Molly Kazan wrote the one-act plays Rosemary, and The Alligator in 1960.
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Elia had numerous extramarital affairs which caused serious rifts with Molly Kazan, including with Constance Dowling and Marilyn Monroe.
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Molly Kazan died on December 14,1963, two days before her 57th birthday, in Bellevue Hospital in New York City following a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Molly Kazan's funeral was held at St Clement's Protestant Episcopal Church with over 400 people in attendance.
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Molly Kazan was survived by her husband and four children, including the playwright Nicholas Kazan.