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Clifford Odets

CLIFFORD ODETS   (1906 - 1963)

Nationality:   USA    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

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Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia and his family moved to New York in 1908. He graduated from High School in 1928 and became an actor with the Theatre Guild. Under the Guild a new group was formed "The Group Theatre" with Lee Strasberg amongst others. They wanted socially aware dramas and it was then that Odets started writing. Seven of his works were put on by The Group including "Waiting For Lefty". After the collapse of the Theatre Group he wrote only four more plays before going to Hollywood. For the next twenty five years he wrote the screenplays for such films as "The General Died At Dawn" and "None But The Lonely Heart". In 1952 he was called in front of the Committee on Un-American Activities. He renounced his communist affiliations and named other communists - but only ones already known to the Committee. He was twice married and had two children He died on August 18th 1963 of cancer of the colon

Plays by Clifford Odets

CLIFFORD ODETS

Awake And Sing

1st Produced:

Belasco Theatre, New York

19 Feb 1935

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Waiting For Lefty and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1994

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0802132208

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

7

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Awake And Sing

Three generations of the Berger family live in an East Bronx apartment. Bessie runs the family and above all she wants it to be "respectable". Her father, Jacob a retired barber is a Marxist. Her son, Monty, is on the way up.

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Big Knife, The

1st Produced:

National Theatre, New York

24 Feb 1949

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1963

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0822201151

Music:

-

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#26186

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Genre:

3 Acts Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Big Knife, The

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. We see his struggles to escape from the net of insincerity and falsehood in which he has trapped himself, and his ultimate defeat.

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CLIFFORD ODETS

By The Sea

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26187

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Genre:

Unfinished Play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Clash By Night

1st Produced:

Belasco Theatre, New York

27 Dec 1941

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Random House 1942

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26188

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Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Mae Wilenski lives with her simple husband Jerry in a shack on Staten Island and she is bored. Her husband does not satisfy her and her life is a drag. She longs for a virile man to take her away from all this. Then she meets ne'er do well Joe

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Country Girl, The

1st Produced:

- - -

10 Nov 1950

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0822202431

Music:

-

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#26189

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

6

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Country Girl, The

As told by "Fireside Theater": "THE COUNTRY GIRL, in this affectionate backstage story, is Georgie Elgin, a lovable, faithful, forgiving woman whose long years of devotion to her actor husband, Frank, have almost obliterated her own personality. Being an actor's wife is not the glamorous role so many imagine. Life is either feast or famine with months of the year spent in bolstering up the morale of a man out of work. Some actors make enough, save enough, to tide them over these enforced waits between plays, but not Frank, whose long periods of idleness are punctuated by despair and drink. Then came the event that all actors pray for-the really big part in an important new play. Georgie couldn't believe her ears when Broadway's youngest director, Bernie Dodd, picked Frank for the lead. Of course he should take it. And of course she'd help, but only Georgie knew the struggle it would be to pull Frank together, to reassure him at every turn, and above all, to keep him from slipping at those moments of discouragement that were sure to come. Georgie performed her self-effacing, morale-building job on Frank under the tense watchful eyes of a nervous director whose reputation depended on this, his first big play. During rehearsals he was suspicious, doubting her good influence, believing Frank's lies that she caused his downfall, even trying to get rid of her. Then on the evening of the Boston opening the strain proved too great. Frank cracked wide open, and in the dark light of Frank's relapse, Bernie saw the country girl for what she was-a magnificent person whose self-sacrificing goodness had never been truly appreciated."

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Flowering Peach

1st Produced:

Belasco Theatre, New York

28 Dec 1954

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0822204114

Music:

-

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#26190

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

7

Female

4

Parts other:

4 animals which may be played by men or women

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

As described by Atkinson is: "the story of mankind living out its destiny under the benevolent eye of God. There were giants on the earth in those days of the Deluge. In spirit Noah was the greatest. It is Mr. Odets' mood not to put him on a pedestal but to characterize him as the worried head of a family of ordinary individuals-a peevish though loving hero who feels himself close to God&the story of how Noah persuades his skeptical family that God has given all of them a mission, how they bicker, yet do the job obediently, how God helps them solve the most prodigious problems, how they scamper into the ark when the rains fall-all this, told with sympathetic humor in the form of a folk fable, ought to be enough to delight and move any theatregoer. In the second act the voyager concludes triumphantly with the grounding of the ark, the flowering of the peach, and the departure of the family in their several ways to replenish and fructify the earth. It is a triumphant conclusion, but after a long series of quarrels and sorrows that symbolize the eternal questioning of God's children.

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Golden Boy - The Musical

1st Produced:

Majestic Theatre
245 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036

20 Oct 1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Athenaeum, New York, 1965

ISBN/ASIN:

im-86

Music:

Original cast recording: Razor and Tie (IM86)

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

17

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Music by Charles Strausse; lyrics by Lee Adams; book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson

Golden Boy - The Musical

Joe Bonaparte, whose dream of becoming a violinist could become a reality when prize-fight promoter Roxy Gottlieb offers to sponsor him as a boxer. He is torn between the lure of big money and the possibility of injuring his hands and finishing his musical career. He is given advice by his Italian immigrant father, his manager Tom Moody, and Tom's girlfriend Lorna Moon. Joe falls in love with Lorna

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Golden Boy, The

1st Produced:

Belasco Theatre, New York

04 Nov 1937

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Waiting For Lefty and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1993

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0802132208

Music:

-

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Genre:

Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Golden Boy, The

Joe Bonaparte, whose dream of becoming a violinist could become a reality when prize-fight promoter Roxy Gottlieb offers to sponsor him as a boxer. He is torn between the lure of big money and the possibility of injuring his hands and finishing his musical career. He is given advice by his Italian immigrant father, his manager Tom Moody, and Tom's girlfriend Lorna Moon. Joe falls in love with Lorna

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

I Can't Sleep

1st Produced:

- - -

May 1935

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#126227

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Genre:

Monologue play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A worker has betrayed the Party

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Jacobowsky And The Colonel

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26193

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Franz Werfel had been asked by The Theatre Guild, New York to turn the story "Jacoboswski und der Oberst" into a play. He did but in German. The Guild asked him to translate it but did not like the translation. They asked Clifford Odets to rewrite the translation. However, they did not like Odets version either and got S N Behrman to do it. Behrman's version opened on March 14 1944 at Martin Beck Theatre, New York

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Night Music

1st Produced:

Broadhurst Theatre, New York

22 Feb 1940

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Random House 1940

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26194

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Night time in Manhattan and the various people there. The benevolent police officer, the young lovers, a sailor thrown out of his hotel before he could enjoy himself.

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Notes For A Dream

1st Produced:

- - -

1943

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26195

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

from The Patriot by Alfred Neumann

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CLIFFORD ODETS

Nursery, The

1st Produced:

Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York

1953

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26196

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

One Winter In Boston

1st Produced:

- - -

1951

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26197

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

One Winter In Boston on the website of Indiana University, that has his paper,s it is listed with plays and film scripts but all they have is the novel by Robert Smith with some annotations by Odets - they think he was planning to turn the novel into a script - but got no further than writing notes in the novel.

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Paradise Lost

1st Produced:

Longacre Theatre, New York

09 Mar 1935

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Waiting For Lefty and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1994

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0802132208

Music:

-

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#26198

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n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Paradise Lost

During the Depression Leo a prosperous manufacture looses his business and he and his family have to face up to their loss

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Rocket To The Moon

1st Produced:

Belasco Theatre, New York

24 Nov 1938

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26199

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

6

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Tells of a woman whose physical and spiritual wants are disarmingly normal-a sort of anomaly in our modern, complex city life. This woman finds herself between a dentist who is unhappily married, and an old gentleman who has everything to offer her except youth. Of plot in the ordinary sense, there is very little, but with characters such as Mr. 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.

Further Reference:

Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 07 Page 343


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CLIFFORD ODETS

Russian People

1st Produced:

Guild Theatre, New York

29 Dec 1942

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26200

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

27

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Based on the book by Konstantine Simonov

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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CLIFFORD ODETS

Seasons, The

1st Produced:

- - -

1953

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26201

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CLIFFORD ODETS

She Wants To Marry

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26202

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CLIFFORD ODETS

Silent Partner, The

1st Produced:

- - -

1939

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26203

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

written in 1937

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CLIFFORD ODETS

Tides Of Fundy

1st Produced:

Unproduced

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26204

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CLIFFORD ODETS

Till The Day I Die

1st Produced:

Longacre Theatre, New York

26 Mar 1935

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Waiting For Lefty and Other Plays" published by Grove Press 1994

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0802132208

Music:

-

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#26205

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n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Till The Day I Die

The Communist Underground in 1930s Berlin try to stop the rise to power of the Nazis

Further Reference:

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Waiting For Lefty

1st Produced:

Longacre Theatre, New York

26 Mar 1935

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0822212157

Music:

-

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#26206

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Genre:

Drama One Act

Parts:

Male

13

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Waiting For Lefty

The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a young cabbie and his would-be bride, who lack the wherewithal to get married; a disturbing scene involving a senior doctor and the underpaid young intern (a labor activist) whom the doctor has been ordered to discharge; and, finally, a return to the union hall where the workers, learning that Lefty has been gunned down by the powers-that-be, resolve at last to stand up for their rights and to strike-and to stay off their jobs until their grievances are finally heard and acted upon by those who have so cynically exploited and misused them.

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CLIFFORD ODETS

Winter Journey

1st Produced:

Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York

12 Mar 1968

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French Inc, New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#95534

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

6

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

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Synopsis:

When the leading man pulls out of a play when it is in try-outs the director, Bernie Dodd persuades the backers to let Frank Elgin take over. Frank was once a matinee idol but has taken to drink. He blames his drinking on his wife Georgie he says that it is her neurotic nature and constant suicide attempts that led him to drink. Bernie is very hostile to Georgie. After some bad reviews Frank hits the bottle. Bernie tries to have Georgie sent home. It is then that he discovers that Frank had been lying to him. Frank is the neurotic suicide attempting one whilst Georgie tries her best to support him.

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Research

Clifford Odets Papers in the Lilly Library