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Odets, Clifford
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Odets, Clifford (1906–63), American dramatist, was a founder member in 1931 of the Group Theatre, which followed the naturalistic methods of the Moscow Art Theatre, and his reputation was made when it performed his short play
Waiting for Lefty (1935), about a taxi-drivers' strike. This was followed in the same year by two other dramas of social conflict,
Till the Day I Die, and
Awake and Sing! Later works include
Clash By Night (1941);
The Big Knife (1948); and
The Country Girl (1950, first known in Britain as
Winter Journey), about an alcoholic actor's marriage.
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Clifford Odets
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Clifford Odets IF CLIFFORD ODETS WAS AN OVERVALUED PLAYWRIGHT in the thirties, he was soon to become undervalued. By the fifties his plays were seen not only as old-fashioned but outright dangerous, since he had been a Communist. The sixties...
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Awake and paint! (playwright Clifford Odets' paintings)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Clifford Odets's fantastical canvases unleash his...particularly well professionally for Clifford Odets, the playwright and screenwriter took...title and identifies the artist: "Clifford Odets, the Radical." Although there are...
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Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!-- Where Dream and Disillusion Meet.(Culture)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 4/24/2006; 700+ words
; ...Lincoln Center's rediscovery of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity...sensation for very good reason. Odets' thrilling, one-act agitprop...actually had any effect on the country. Odets, still in his 20's when he wrote...
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Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfeld.(New York, NY)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...that when the celebrated playwright Clifford Odets (1906-1963) worked as a Hollywood...samplings in 1947 and 1948, when Odets had shows at J.B. Neumann's...York, but a half-century later, Odets's singular scenarios are a revelation...
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For the love of Odets. (actress Joanne Woodward directs plays by Clifford Odets)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...displayed an uncommon affection in the past year for Clifford Odets. Last November her mounting of Odets's 1937 boxing drama Golden Boy for the Blue...helpings of a single dramatist are unusual. Was it Odets's left-wing politics, so close to her own...
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Can "Awake and Sing!" Still Sing? Fichandler and Sher are out to prove that Odets's family saga isn't obsolete.(CURRENTS)(Clifford Odets)(Bartlett Sher)(Zelda Fichandler)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...celebrated dramatists. The writer was Clifford Odets, and the play that vaulted him to...swiftly following it with two more Odets premieres--the anti-Nazi drama...forward 70 years. In celebration of Odets's centennial year, 2006, Awake...
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Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfeld. (New York).
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Among Clifford Odets's plays, Paradise Lost (1938) was...also provided the title for the recent Odets exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld, his...few remember the towering reputation Odets enjoyed after his 1935 play Waiting for...
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Days with the group theatre: An interview with Clifford Odets
Magazine article from: Michigan Quarterly Review; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...young actor of the company named Clifford Odets. The audience's enthusiasm was...the Group's leader and young Odets's mentor: "[Waiting for Lefty...Within the next year the life of young Odets-aged twentyeight-would be transformed...
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Odets's Awake and Sing!(Clifford Odets)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Although the ending of Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing! (1935) has been much criticized for its...only in the list of the play's characters do we learn from Odets that "he has killed two men in extra-martial activity" [225...
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Books: To see the skill beneath th e skin SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman / THE APARTMENT by Billy Wilder and I A L Diamond / PEEPING TOM by Leo Marks/ BONNIE AND CLYDE by David Newman and Robert Benton, Faber pounds 8.99 each
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/2/1998; ; 700+ words
; THESE days, we don't just want to watch movies, we want to read them too. Modern film auteurs are now seen not just as great directors but as great writers, with Quentin Tarantino, in particular, selling scripts in vast quantities. This new-found audience for screenplays largely consists, one
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Clifford Odets
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Clifford Odets A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding...feeling for the family were distinctive. Clifford Odets was born on July 18, 1906, in Philadelphia...
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Odets, Clifford
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Odets, Clifford (1906–63), playwright...Flowering Peach (1954). At his best Odets was a powerful dramatist with a gift...essence of many of his works. Biography: Clifford Odets—American Playwright , Margaret...
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Golden Boy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Golden Boy (1937), a drama by Clifford Odets . [ Belasco Theatre , 250 perf...be killed in a car crash. One of Odets's least political early plays...good through his boxing talents. Odets worked on the libretto, but when...
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The Sweet Smell of Success
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Hecht-Hill-Lancaster presentation; screenplay: Clifford Odets, adapted by Ernest Lehman, from the short story...addict. It is a premise which provides screenwriter Clifford Odets the perfect opportunity to mount a scathing expos...
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Rainer, Luise
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...January 1910. Family: Married 1) the playwright Clifford Odets, 1937 (divorced 1940); 2) Robert Knittel, 1945...the poor career advice given her by then-husband Clifford Odets. Her record of two successive Oscars stood, however...
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