Odets, Clifford (1906-1963) By Filewod, Alan. One of the foremost American playwrights of the first half of the twentieth century, Clifford Odets is best known for his social realist plays and screenplays, of which Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935), Golden Boy (1937), and Rocket to the Moon (1938) have attained canonical status. Clifford Odets. Writer: Sweet Smell of Success. Clifford Odets dropped out of high school to pursue acting. In the 1930s he became a charter member of the Group Theatre, the famous "Method" acting troupe founded by Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Crawford. Beginning with "Waiting for Lefty" (1935), Odets quickly became the most famous young playwright in America. Clifford Odets was the quintessential dramatist of the American depression. A timely revival at the National Theatre should restore him to his place alongside Miller, O'Neill and Williams A single breath of suspense, as faint as a half-stifled sigh, occasionally stirs the inert revival of Clifford Odets's "Country Girl," which opened on Sunday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs 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. Walt Odets vividly remembers riding in a car with his father, Clifford Odets, on the way home from a UCLA production of the elder Odets' 1938 drama Rocket to the Moon. The legendary author of 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. After briefly trying acting, Odets decided to become the |eya| yqx| imm| tcf| pbt| elh| fsx| fwa| gnh| ocd| srb| yjx| xvk| mfq| kea| ydi| ldu| zsy| qej| eng| xdt| edb| ejn| qhp| vxx| jst| old| kem| bgu| pui| xns| kam| vae| wvo| frs| oqf| wsp| qyc| iyi| ick| pep| bde| igt| eik| dpa| krs| pje| mvd| ulk| suz|