Cheryl Crawford, meanwhile, had been relegated to a largely executive role. Clurman was a visionary, Strasberg a revolutionary; Crawford had become a functionary, the woman who made the trains run on time for the benefit of male dictators. When she went to Clurman with this problem, he dismissed it as ego on her part. What she needed was to make “her contribution on the basis of her real competence,” which consisted, coincidentally, of the jobs he and Strasberg struggled with and did not want to do. She began to worry she had left a job at the Guild to take a largely unpaid job doing the same
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