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Clifford Odets. Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) [1] was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdraw from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash. [2]
Sep 3, 2020 · Louis Odets eventually replaced the machine and gave his permission for Clifford to attempt an acting career. During the late 1920s Odets acted with an amateur theater group, worked as an announcer for a small Bronx radio station, wrote radio plays, recited poetry on the air, performed in vaudeville for $1 a night, and acted in melodramas ...
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Oct 18, 1981 · Odets's psychoanalyst arrived after Kazan and Clurman had gone to lunch. Kazan described the scene on their return: ''When we entered the room, there was a woman sitting at Cliff's bedside ...
Clifford Odets was born to twenty-year-old Lithuanian immigrant Louis J. Odets and his nineteen-year-old wife, Pearl Geisinger Odets. Louis Odets, a feeder in a print shop, hotly pursued the ...
Clifford Odets--playwright, director, actor, and poet--was born in Philadelphia on July 18, 1906, the son of Russian and Romanian Jewish immigrants. When he was four, the family moved to the Bronx, where his father, Louis J. Odets, became a successful printer.
Esther tended to view Louis as a “phony show-off- a bulshitter” who made constant exaggerations and bragged frequently (21). The union between Esther Pearl and Louis Odets was blessed by the birth of Clifford, their first child, on July 18, 1906. Clifford’s arrival temporarily provided harmony to their marriage (24-25).
Mar 29, 2024 · Clifford Odets (born July 18, 1906, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died August 14, 1963, Hollywood, California) was a leading dramatist of the theatre of social protest in the United States during the 1930s. His important affiliation with the celebrated Group Theatre contributed to that company’s considerable influence on the American stage.
