Martin Ritt
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Rooted in a Manhattan Jewish family and educated at DeWitt Clinton High School, he first pursued football at Elon College before turning to the stage, where work with the Federal Theater Project and the Group Theatre introduced him to the radical social concerns that would shape his later films. A longtime assistant to Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio, he honed his directing skills in hundreds of s…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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