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   Jun 22, 2024 · There are vintage posters of the movies of his father, an actor and director who was blacklisted (turned in by Clifford Odets).

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3. www.humanitiestexas.org › news › articlesArthur Miller and Twentieth-Century American Drama ...

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   2 days ago · Clifford Odets, now considered a major American playwright, could not make ends meet with these political plays he was writing, and he ended up moving to Hollywood and writing a bunch of very sappy, awful boxing movies.

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets Tensions run high in this play about three generations of a Bronx Jewish family and each one's pursuit of the American Dream. Can one achieve it while also ...

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6. chicagoreader.com › arts-culture › theaterTragic mundanity - Chicago Reader

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   Jun 12, 2024 · “It’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” Actually, the quote may belong to another dour playwright, Clifford Odets, but that hardly matters here.

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   4 days ago · And since they were an ensemble theater collective, in addition to sharing income, they shared acting roles (fairly) evenly across their work. In 1934, they would produce one of their most renowned productions: Clifford Odets’ “Waiting for Lefty.” A play about the New York Taxicab Union Strike from 1934-35, it famously ended with the ...

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   Jun 16, 2024 · The Group Theatre transfers Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty from a downtown theatre to the Longacre. The cast includes Elia Kazan, Lee J. Cobb and Odets himself.

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   What is Odets best known for?

   • In Waiting for Lefty (1935), a stirring plea for labour unionism, Odets roused the audience to an intense pitch of fervour, and in Awake and Sing (1935), perhaps the best play of the decade, he created a lyrical work of family conflict and youthful yearning.

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   Who was Clifford Odets?

   • One of the Groupe Theatre's major productions was Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets in 1935. This was one of the first prominent American family dramas by Clifford Odets, who was a son of Jewish immigrants and grew up in New York. It was about his family and their economic and political struggles.

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   What happened to Clifford Odets?

   • But this great rousing moment of political action did not exactly go anywhere. Clifford Odets, now considered a major American playwright, could not make ends meet with these political plays he was writing, and he ended up moving to Hollywood and writing a bunch of very sappy, awful boxing movies.

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   What happens in waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets?

   • Waiting for Lefty is a play, also by Clifford Odets, about taxi workers organizing a labor union to negotiate better wages. It ends in this famously rousing moment where the taxi workers have taken a vote and decided to strike so that they can form their union, and it ends with a rousing chant of "Strike! Strike!"

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    3 days ago · In Waiting for Lefty (1935), a stirring plea for labour unionism, Odets roused the audience to an intense pitch of fervour, and in Awake and Sing (1935), perhaps the best play of the decade, he created a lyrical work of family conflict and youthful yearning.