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The Big Knife is an American play by Clifford Odets. The original production was directed by Lee Strasberg, who had worked with Odets at the Group Theatre, and starring fellow Group Theatre alumnus John Garfield. The play debuted at Broadway's National Theatre on 24 February 1949 before closing on May 28 after 109 performances.
Odets thought better of Paradise Lost than most Broadway critics did. The play, although disappointing in many respects, is significant for its almost flawless development of the character of Sam ...
With Lillian Hellman, Odets remains one of the foremost U.S. dramatists of the 1930s. Born in Philadelphia, he became an actor about 1923 and joined the Group Theatre upon its founding in 1930. From then until its collapse in 1940, the Group Theatre produced seven plays by Odets, all of which reflect the Depression era in which they were written.
Clifford Odets (18. heinäkuuta 1906 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Yhdysvallat – 18. elokuuta 1963) oli yhdysvaltalainen näytelmäkirjailija sekä elokuvien käsikirjoittaja ja ohjaaja. Odets aloitti teatteriuransa näyttelijänä 1920-luvun puolivälissä.
Barton Fink is a 1991 American black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers.Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, the insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle.
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In the early 1930s workers’ theatre groups proliferated. New Theatre magazine, which started in 1934, sponsored benefit performances of short plays and dances at a theatre near Union Square, New York. On the benefit night of 6 January 1935 Clifford Odets...
