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The Wild One

6.2 95 mins Documentary   2023
Petite Maison Production   Studio Babelsberg   Barnstormer Productions   Noodles Production  
Director(s): Tessa Louise-Salomé

In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present freely intermingled to contribute to memorable stage productions and in two films, many which were ahead of their time in tackling such issues as homosexuality, race and violence. Powered by his vivid recollections and augmented with readings by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One traces Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis, surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his 1946 arrival at 16 in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood, his marriage to actress Carroll Baker.

Casts of The Wild One

Willem Dafoe

as Narrator (voice)

Jack Garfein

as Self

Blanche Baker

as Self

Irène Jacob

as Self

Bobby Soto

as Self

Dick Guttman

as Self

Geoffrey Horne

as Self

Foster Hirsch

as Self

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