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Waiting for Lefty is a 1935 play by the American playwright Clifford Odets; it was his first play to be produced. Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by a meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labor strike. The framing uses the audience as part of the meeting. The play debuted on Sunday, January 6, 1935 ...
Golden Boy (play) Golden Boy. (play) Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced on Broadway by The Group Theatre in 1937. Odets' biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name, starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for a 1964 musical with Sammy Davis Jr.
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 ]
“Waiting for Lefty” is the first play written by Clifford Odets, who inspired the likes of Arthur Miller, Neil Simon and David Mamet. MSU Theatre's 'Waiting for Lefty' delves into unions, anti ...
Genre. Drama. Setting. an underground room, office in the Columbia Brown house, Barracks room, Brown house. Till the Day I Die is a play by Clifford Odets performed on Broadway in 1935.
English. Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 American film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman. It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish). The RKO Pictures film release was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate ...
Ada Ellen Bayly (25 March 1857 – 8 February 1903), also known as Edna Lyall, was an English novelist, who "supported the women's suffrage movement from an early age." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography
Clash by Night is a 1952 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes. The film is based on the 1941 play by Clifford Odets, adapted for the screen by writer Alfred Hayes. It is the first major film to credit Monroe before the title, albeit with fourth ...