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] From January 1935, Odets's socially relevant dramas were extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. His works inspired the next several generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, and David Mamet. After the production of his play Clash by Night in the 1941–42 season, Odets focused his energies primarily on film projects, remaining in Hollywood until mid-1948. He returned to New York for five and a half years, during which time he produced three more Broadway plays, only one of which was a success. His prominence was eventually eclipsed by Miller, Tennessee Williams, and, in the early- to mid-1950s, William Inge.
^ProQuest Historical Newspapers, The New York Times (1851–2006). "Obituary". August 15, 15, 1963: 27.
^A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama. Syracuse, NY: Reader's Guide Series. 2002. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8156-2939-9.
CliffordOdets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential...
published as The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of CliffordOdets. (1988) The diary explored Odets' philosophical deliberations about writing and romance...
live with playwright CliffordOdets, whom she had married in 1937. Rainer had never made it a secret that she felt terrible as Odets' wife, and exclaimed...
interim literary executor of CliffordOdets' Estate until Walt Odets was eligible to assume the executorship at the age of 21. Odets received a B.A. in Philosophy...
pursues a literary career. The screenplay was written by playwright CliffordOdets. Glenn Tyler (Elvis Presley), a childish 25-year old, gets into a fight...
Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by CliffordOdets, Ernest Lehman, and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman. The shadowy...
Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes. The film is based on the 1941 play by CliffordOdets, adapted for the screen by writer Alfred Hayes. It is the first major...
(2020). Brosnahan made her Broadway debut in the 2013 revival of the CliffordOdets play The Big Knife. She played Desdemona in the 2016 New York Theatre...
produced and starred in a Los Angeles production of "The Big Knife" by CliffordOdets, a play which explores the Hollywood environment under the big studio...
John Howard Lawson, two CliffordOdets plays, Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost, and directed the touring company of Odets's Golden Boy and More to Give...
Lee Strasberg in 1931. He appeared in the original production of the CliffordOdets play Golden Boy, followed by a host of successful Broadway roles alongside...
Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, CliffordOdets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, President Richard Nixon and...
theater actor and director who became a well-known teacher. His mentor CliffordOdets chose Kass to direct and develop The Country Girl before it opened on...
Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the 1949 play by CliffordOdets. The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen...
favorable reviews, it closed quickly. In the plays written by his friend, CliffordOdets, for the Group Theatre, he created the roles of Dr. Barnes in Waiting...
only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman. It was written by CliffordOdets and based on a novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich (as William...
Waiting for Lefty is a 1935 play by the American playwright CliffordOdets; it was his first play to be produced. Consisting of a series of related vignettes...
Weissmuller. She also starred in the 1949 Broadway play The Big Knife by CliffordOdets. Kelly was subsequently a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award...
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