The son of Sicilian immigrants, Ben Gazzara grew up on New York City's tough Lower East Side in a cold-water flat with the bathtub in the kitchen, speaking Italian as his first language. While movies of the era fueled his dreams, it was the applause greeting his first performance in a play at the Boys Club when he was 12 that really sold him on the life of an actor. After studying engineering…
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