Years later, he became a film critic for Time, wrote a biography of the actor, Marlon Brando, and became friends with the man who directed both the play and the film, Elia Kazan.

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Educated at Harvard University, Kerr received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a sensitive school boy who was bullied for being a suspected homosexual in Elia Kazan's 1953 Broadway production of Tea and Sympathy.

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Cobb and Elia Kazan.

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