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	Clifford Odets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Odets was born in Philadelphia of Jewish immigrant parents and raised in the Bronx, New York.
		In general, Odets' political statements show a rather naive view of Marxism that might be expected in the 1930s; for example, he often points to the Soviet Union as an example of a perfect socialist state, not the land of violence and poverty that we now know it was.
		Clifford Odets died of cancer at the age of 57 in 1963 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifford_Odets (625 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Clifford Odets
		Clifford Odets was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Philadelphia, PA, on July 18, 1906.
		Odets also perfected the group's ambition to write plays in the authentic language of its working-class characters; his crackling, pitch-perfect dialogue brought an unprecedented level of social realism to the theater.
		Odets quickly followed the success of "Waiting for Lefty" in 1935 with what many consider his masterpiece, "Awake and Sing!" and also "Till the Day I Die," one of the first anti-Nazi plays produced on Broadway.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_clifford_odets.html (615 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Clifford Odets
		Clifford Odets was one of the most celebrated playwrights of the 1930s, and his work for the stage during that period and screenwriting in the '40s yielded some of the more interesting movies of either decade.
		Odets was more successful with The Country Girl (1950), a play dealing with alcoholism that was made into a film four years later with Holden, Bing Crosby, and Grace Kelly.
		By the start of the '60s, Odets had descended even lower (in his view) when he signed a contract to write four screenplays for the television anthology series The Richard Boone Show, although, ironically, it was regarded as one of the finest dramatic television shows of the day.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/92842/bio.jhtml (988 words)

	Clifford Odets: Anguish of Many Colors in Paintings
		It shows a jacketless, clearly sadder and wiser Odets sitting at his desk, surrounded by about a dozen of his works from his art collection, all by Paul Klee, their ethereal motifs hovering about him like protective spirits.
		Odets owned art by Chagall, Picasso, Soutine, Roualt and others, but his lasting love was Klee.
		As an artist, Odets comes closest to Klee in "War Scene," a seemingly beatific field of diaphanous red punctuated with little marks of yellow and red that turn out to be exploding planes and bombs.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/odets.html (920 words)

	Clifford Odets (1906-1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If Odets occasionally seems dated, he is less so for those who put this play into its 1930s milieu.
		Playwright Odets clearly believed in 1935 that through union solidarity the little man might find a way out of the despair of America's economic and social ills.
		Politically, Odets was going through the same sort of youthful flirtation with communism that marked the careers of many of his 1930s contemporaries.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/odets.html (386 words)

	The Clifford Odets Papers - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1906.
		Odets was married to and divorced from film actresses Luise Rainer and Bette Grayson.
		Odets died in August of 1963 before he was able to see two of his own scripts, Big Mitch and The Mafia Man, produced for the series.
	www.iub.edu /~liblilly/guides/odets/odets1.html (466 words)

	Conferring with Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, for me, the high point of the article was the announcement that Clifford Odets, the world-renowned playwright, was to serve as executive story editor for the series and would be selecting all the scripts for the productions.
		Episodes were being shot, but the rumor was that Odets was hard to please and was disappointed in the quality of the stories he was hearing.
		Odets grunted his approval, and for a while the two of us were like tennis players belting a ball back and forth across a net.
	www.wga.org /WrittenBy/0600/odets.html (1625 words)

	PAL: Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
		Odets believed that through union solidarity it was possible for the downtrodden to find a solution to the economic and social despair.
		In this play, Odets uses a scenery-less stage and has his actors in the auditorium the capture the reality of union hall strike meeting.
		Clifford Odets, American Playwright: The Years from 1906 to 1940.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap8/odets.html (272 words)

	Golden Boy Summary & Essays - Clifford Odets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Odets has stated in interviews that he wrote the play as a deliberate attempt to create a hit.
		The play was written after Odets returned from a screenwriting job in Hollywood, a position that drew criticism from those who had pinned their hopes on Odets as a social reformer.
		While Odets was torn between Hollywood and the New York theatre scene, Joe is torn between the high-pressure, big-money business of boxing and his dream of becoming a violinist.
	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=golden-boy&typeID=59 (393 words)

	AllRefer.com - Clifford Odets (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Clifford Odets[Odets´] Pronunciation Key, 1906–63, American dramatist, b.
		Turning his attention from acting to playwriting, Odets soon came to be regarded as the most gifted of the American social-protest dramatists of the 1930s.
		Odets spent many years in Hollywood writing film scripts.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Odets-Cl.html (297 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureClifford Odets - Author Page
		It was, in fact, first produced in a small union hall; it was probably not, on the other hand, written in three nights or written as an entry in a contest with a $50 prize.
		It was quite clearly written in response to the urging of Odets’s Communist friends (Odets had joined the party for his brief dalliance in the fall of 1934).
		If Odets did not reach the full measure of fulfillment which any artist seeks, he did earn his niche in the history of American drama.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/odets_cl.html (650 words)

	Odets Clifford - playwright
		The story tells of the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slow destruction of his personality.
		Odets draws, there is no necessity for a story in the conventional sense.
		The play is brilliantly written and offers and extraordinary opportunity for the depiction of human beings at odd with themselves and their environments.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsO/OdetsClifford.htm (840 words)

	Clifford Odets
		Clifford Odets, the son of Jewish immigrants, was born in Philadelphia, on 18th July, 1906.
		Investigated by Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, Odets argued that he had never been under the infuence of the American Communist Party and his work had been based on his deep sympathy for the working classes.
		Unlike many writers and actors who had been members of the party, Odets was not fllisted and continued to work in Hollywood.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAodets.htm (242 words)

	Odets, Clifford -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		During the 1930s, U.S. playwright Clifford Odets ranked as one of the leading dramatists of the leftist theater of social protest in the United States.
		As one of the original members of New York City's Group Theatre, which was founded to present plays of social significance, Odets contributed to that company's prestige and its influence on the American stage.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9056762&query=clifford (691 words)

	Clifford Odets, Playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clifford Odets has been characterized as the most distinctive and significant American playwright of the 1930’s, and his body of work remains a lasting contribution to the American Theatre.
		Born in Philadelphia, PA in 1906, he began his career as a theatre critic, a writer of radio plays, and as a bit actor in stock companies, joining the famed Group Theatre in 1931.
		During the last twenty years of his life, while working in Hollywood as a film and television scriptwriter, he wrote three plays, The Big Knife, The Country Girl, and The Flowering Peach.
	www.colonytheatre.org /bios/OdetsClifford.html (144 words)

	Records for Clifford Odets, American playwright : the years from 1906 to 1940. (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Records for Clifford Odets, American playwright : the years from 1906 to 1940.
		Clifford Odets, American playwright : the years from 1906 to 1940.
		Clifford Odets, American playwright : the years from 1906 to 1940 / Margaret Brenman-Gibson.
	library.cerritos.edu /MARION/%2BCLIFFORD%20ODETS/e7d500006100/0 (47 words)

	The Big Knife by Clifford Odets
		Clifford Odets (1906-1963) hat sich in den letzten Jahren als einer der beliebtesten Bühnenautoren in Los Angeles hervorgehoben (nach Shakespeare, Neil Simon, Sam Shepard und Tennessee Williams).
		Odets macht Beltrans Aufgabe um so schwerer, da er die Rolle mit einfältigem, jämmerlich selbstmitleidigem Grübeln wie "sehnen nach einer Welt voll Menschen, die das Beste in mir zum Vorschein bringen" überlädt.
		Odets hat mit seinem Wahrnehmungsvermögen und seiner Intelligenz den Trend in den Vereinigten Staaten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg vorhergesehen.
	www.robertbeltran.de /thebigknifedt.html (2581 words)

	Odets' Awake and Sing! Receives Spring 2006 Lincoln Center Revival (BroadwayWorld.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clifford Odets, the fervidly left-wing playwright whose works have been absent from Broadway for over ten years, will be represented by Lincoln Center Theatre's upcoming revival of his 1935 classic Awake and Sing!
		Born July 18, 1906 in Philadelphia, Clifford Odets dropped out of high school at the age of 17 to become an actor.
		Odets died of cancer in 1963 at the age of 57
	www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=5430 (634 words)

	Art in America: Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfeld. (New York).@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among Clifford Odets's plays, Paradise Lost (1938) was his favorite.
		It also provided the title for the recent Odets exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld, his second at the gallery.
		Today, few remember the towering reputation Odets enjoyed after his 1935 play Waiting for Lefty, depicting striking taxi drivers on strike, became a rallying cry for the labor movement.
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	Clifford Odets
		Six plays of Clifford Odets, (The Modern library of the world's best books)
		Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 17, Chapter 4)
		Clifford Odets: Paradise Lost Paintings on Paper from the 1940s and 1950s
	www.mason-defender.net /webstore/us/books/author/Clifford+Odets.htm (61 words)

	Clifford Odets by Harold Cantor, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0810837323
		Rather than focusing on biographical and political factors surrounding his works, Cantor provides a close reading of eleven of Odets' plays as a whole, grounding his study within an analysis of themes common to each text.
		Included are reprints of "Sum and Substance," an interview with the writer conducted by the late Herman Harvey, and a 1998 interview by Cantor with actress/director Joanne Woodward, who has directed recent revivals of four of Odets' plays.
		Clifford Odets - American Playwright: The Years fr...
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	Clifford Odets - American Playwright : The Years from, 1906-1940 - Brenman-Gibson, Margaret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clifford Odets - American Playwright : The Years from, 1906-1940 - Brenman-Gibson, Margaret
		Odets time in Hollywood and the Group Theater as well.
		Odets emcapsuated an era and this impressive book is of major importance to theater students and practitioners.
	www.athensbookcenter.com /si/001005.html (70 words)

	Find in a Library: Clifford Odets and American political theatre
		Subjects: Odets, Clifford, -- 1906-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
		Odets, Clifford, -- 1906-1963 -- Political and social views.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/f68f902ace906349a19afeb4da09e526.html (85 words)

	Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Christopher J. Herr, New, ...
		Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Christopher J. Herr, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0313315949
		Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
		Clifford Odets, one of the 20th century's leading American playwrights, was a fervent believer in democracy and the human ability to overcome obstacles.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0313315949.html (306 words)

	Golden Boy Summary
		Odets earned his fame through the social dramas of his early career which openly advocated that the masses fight for their rights by participating in strikes or other protests.
		Although later plays like Golden Boy are not as overt in their references, some critics still consider these plays social dramas, in part because they share the same spirit as the earlier plays.
		Each BookRags Literature Study Guide is written by a subject expert or professional educator and is a complete study guide resource on the work.
	www.bookrags.com /guides/goldenboy/style.htm (158 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Best known as a revolutionary playwright of the 1930s, Clifford Odets may have reached his zenith when four of his plays were produced on Broadway in 1935: Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die, Awake and Sing!, and Paradise Lost.
		His plays, however, also show a romantic strain and are at least as much inimate and personal as they are political, often reflecting the isolation and loneliness of individuals in family settings.
		Never achieving the acclaim of Eugene O'Neill, who came before, or Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, who followed, Odets bridged the gap between earlier melodramatic theatre and the mature post-World War II drama on the American stage, creating rich and varied drama well into the 1950s.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313262/0313262942.html (440 words)

	Brown Paper Tickets - Waiting For Lefty - by Clifford Odets
		From January 20, 2005 8:00 PM Through February 20, 2005 2:00 PM Gala Event on Saturday, February 12th includes wine bar and dessert, special guest speaker and talk back with director, cast and crew.
		Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" tells the stories of everyday people in 1930's America, who rise above the capitalist mess they've inherited and take control of their destinies.
		Beginning and ending in a meeting hall, the story tells of the gradual movement towards a strike for a group of taxi drivers.
	www.brownpapertickets.com /event/731 (257 words)

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