• Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s...
  • Clifford Odets, the son of Jewish immigrants, was born in Philadelphia, on 18th July, 1906. He left school at the age of 17 to become an actor.
  • 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...
  • Clifford Odets’s banner year was 1935, when he catapulted from the obscurity of acting with the Group Theatre to being the toast of Broadway.
  • Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was a playwright whose work often involved social, economic, and political issues and was a major figure in the Group Theatre.
  • Other Odets dramas on Broadway included Golden Boy, Rocket to the Moon, and Paradise Lost. ... Open the windows.” —Clifford Odets, Paradise Lost.
  • 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...
  • Clifford Odets passed away on July 23, 1963 from stomach cancer. ... Clifford Odets is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
  • It was Mackendrick's idea to bring in Clifford Odets to rewrite the script that Lehman had prepared. He'd always admired Odets for his work in the theatre and he...
  • Clifford Odets was a leading dramatist of the theatre of social protest in the United States during the 1930s.