A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
Cast
Joanne Woodward
Self - Host
Stella Adler
Self
Margaret Barker
Self
Ellen Burstyn
Self
Phoebe Brand
Self
Kate Burton
Self
Morris Carnovsky
Self
Harold Clurman
Self
Cheryl Crawford
Self
John Garfield
Joe Bonaparte (archive footage)
Paul Newman
Self
Sanford Meisner
Self (archive footage)
Lee Strasberg
Self
Sylvia Sidney
Self
Shelley Winters
Self
Michael Gordon
Self
Pia Kazan
Self
Katharine Hepburn
Self
Robert Lewis
Self
Dylan McDermott
Self
James Naughton
Self
Ruth Nelson
Self
Martin Ritt
Self
Maria Tucci
Self
Sidney Kingsley
Self
Margaret Klenck
Self
Michael O'Flaherty
Self
Joan Crawford
Self
Barbara Stanwyck
Self
Franchot Tone
Self
Marlon Brando
Self (voice)
Walter Matthau
Self (voice)
Gregory Peck
Self (voice)
Mary Steenburgen
Self (voice)
Warren Beatty
Self (voice)
Faye Dunaway
Self (voice)
James Coburn
Self (voice)
Henry Winkler
Self (voice)
Julie Harris
Self (voice)
Sydney Pollack
Self (voice)
Peter Bogdanovich
Self (voice)
Maureen Stapleton
Self (voice)
Roddy McDowall
Self (voice)
Sally Field
Self (voice)
Jennifer Grey
Self (voice)
Crew
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