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McNay Screening 1957’s A Face in the Crowd, Which May or May Not Have Predicted the Rise of Donald Trump

Following the success of their eight-time Oscar-winning 1954 smash On the Waterfront, director/producer Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg reunited for 1957’s A Face in the Crowd — an originally overlooked film that questioned the power of the media, called out the soullessness of Hollywood and specifically warned viewers about the dangers of blindly believing everything […]

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