• Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s...
  • Clifford Odets’ work is not performed much these days, least of all in the UK, consequently, and sadly, I’ve only been able to read his work recently...
  • A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding dramatist in the 1930s.
  • In 1952 - Odets was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee as a "friendly witness".
  • 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.
  • Odets, who joined the American Communist Party in 1934, had his first play produced, Waiting for Lefty, in 1935.
  • From 1923 to 1928 Odets learned his profession as an actor in repertory companies; in 1931 he joined the newly founded Group Theatre as one of its original...
  • 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.
  • Radical playwright and screenwriter Clifford Odets, whose Depression-era dramas Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing...
  • Clifford Odets is regarded as one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th-century.