Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

88 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | June 26, 1989

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.

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

88 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | June 26, 1989

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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.
Producers American Masters Pictures, 1515 Productions Limited
Original title Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Directors David Heeley
Writers Steve Lawson, Joan Kramer

Cast

Joanne Woodward

as Self

Stella Adler

as Self

Margaret Barker

as Self

Ellen Burstyn

as Self

Phoebe Brand

as Self

Kate Burton

as Self

Harold Clurman

as Self

Cheryl Crawford

as Self

John Garfield

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Newman

as Self

Sanford Meisner

as Self (archive footage)

Lee Strasberg

as Self

Sylvia Sidney

as Self

Shelley Winters

as Self

Michael Gordon

as Self

Pia Kazan

as Self

Robert Lewis

as Self

Dylan McDermott

as Self

James Naughton

as Self

Ruth Nelson

as Self

Maria Tucci

as Self

Sidney Kingsley

as Self

Margaret Klenck

as Self

Joan Crawford

as Self

Franchot Tone

as Self