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Clifford Odets was born on July 18, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was raised in the Bronx, New York, but dropped out of high school to pursue acting. He helped found the Group Theatre in 1933, an influential left-wing theatre company that specialized in experimental acting.
May 21, 2018 · A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding dramatist in the 1930s. His colloquial dialogue, vital ideological protests on behalf of human dignity, and feeling for the family were distinctive. Clifford Odets was born on July 18, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pa.
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) 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.
Oct 18, 1981 · Amajor voice in American theater in the 1930's was that of Clifford Odets, author of such plays as ''Waiting for Lefty,'' ''Awake and Sing!,'' ''Paradise Lost'' and ''Golden Boy.''. Odets died...
"Clifford Odets" published on by null. (1906–1963)US dramatist and a founder member of the influential Group Theatre of the 1930s.Born into a wealthy middle-class Jewish family in Philadelphia, Odets grew up in New York.
May 20, 2006 · Forty of Clifford Odets's artworks are on view at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan as part of a citywide centenary celebration.
Apr 9, 2006 · On April 17th, to mark the centennial of the birth of the playwright Clifford Odets, Lincoln Center Theatre will open a new production of “Awake and Sing!,”. Odets’s first full-length play...
