Editing Elia Kazan (section)

==Personal life and death==
Kazan was married three times.<ref name="Rothstein"/> His first wife was playwright [[Molly Kazan|Molly Day Thacher]]. They were married from 1932 until her death in 1963; this marriage produced two daughters and two sons, including screenwriter [[Nicholas Kazan]]. Molly became an especially bitter anti-communist. Film critic Leo Braudy contends that it was Molly who was the principal author of the April 1952 ''New York Times'' ad that further estranged Kazan from the Hollywood community.<ref name=Dornsife_article/>

His second marriage, to the actress [[Barbara Loden]], lasted from 1967 until her death in 1980, and produced one son. His marriage, in 1982, to [[Frances Kazan|Frances Rudge]] continued until his death in 2003. In the early 1930s, Kazan and Molly moved into an 1885 farmhouse in [[Sandy Hook, Connecticut]], where they raised their four children. The family continued to use the property as a summer and weekend retreat until 1998 when the property was put up for sale.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Dorothy |title=Director Elia Kazan Dies; Former Sandy Hook Resident |url=https://www.newtownbee.com/10032003/director-elia-kazan-diesformer-sandy-hook-resident/ |access-date=April 28, 2022 |website=The Newtown Bee |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1978, the U.S. government paid for Kazan and his family to travel to his birthplace where many of his films were to be shown. During a speech in [[Athens]], he discussed his films and his personal and business life in the U.S., along with the messages he tried to convey:

{{blockquote|In my own view, the solution is to talk about human beings and not about abstracts, to reveal the culture and the social moment as it is reflected in the behavior and the lives of individual people. Not to be "correct". To be total. So I do not believe in any ideology that does not permit—no encourage—the freedom of the individual.<ref name=Ciment1>{{cite book |editor-last=Ciment |editor-first=Michel |title=Elia Kazan: An American Odyssey |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=1988 |page=231 |isbn=0747502412}}</ref>}}

Kazan also offered his opinions about the role of the U.S. as a world model for democracy:

{{blockquote|I think you and I, all of us, have some sort of stake in the United States. If it fails, the failure will be that of us all. Of mankind itself. It will cost us all.{{nbsp}}... I think of the United States as a country which is an arena and in that arena there is a drama being played out.{{nbsp}}... I have seen that the struggle is the struggle of free men.<ref name=Ciment1/>}}

Kazan died from natural causes in his Manhattan apartment on September 28, 2003, aged 94.<ref name="Rothstein" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=La mort d'Elia Kazan |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/culture/20030929.OBS7195/la-mort-d-elia-kazan.html |website=Nouvel Obs|date=October 2, 2003 }}</ref>