East of Eden

by Elia Kazan

Other authors: James Dean, Albert Dekker, Julie Harris

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Elia Kazan	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Dean, James	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dekker, Albert	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Harris, Julie	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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East of Eden. Cat on a hot tin roof. A streetcar named Desire. Rebel without a cause. 2 DVD by Turner Classic Movies

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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East of Eden (1955 ∙ IMDb)

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Cal Trask is considered the "bad" son of taciturn Salinas Valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask. Although Cal always means well, he just can't stay out of trouble. Neither is Cal able to match the high esteem in which his father holds his "good" brother Aron. Only Aron's girl friend Abra and kindly old Doctor Sam seem to be able to see the essential goodness in the troublesome Cal. In an effort to win his father's love, Cal purchases a fresh lettuce crop to replace the ruined beans that threatened to bankrupt his family. But Adam rejects the gift and comes to realizes that Cal knows that Kate is Cal and Aron's mother, whom both boys thought was long dead.… (more)

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