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4 days ago · Traversing a tightrope between two genres, it’s as if Other Desert Cities’ dramatist has found a happy medium between, or even perhaps united, the best of the Clifford Odets of Waiting for Lefty with the Eugene O’Neill of The Iceman Cometh. Baitz combines the generation gap, antiwar protest from Vietnam to Iraq, the Reagan era and more with a conflict between a daughter and her parents ...
5 days ago · This pro-worker trend included Clifford Odets’s landmark Waiting for Lefty, a 1935 Group Theatre production about the unionization struggle of cab drivers that ended with the cast leading ...
1 day ago · When he loses his job because of his union loyalties, Rose turns out to be the one with resilience. She exhorts him to keep fighting, like Edna in the “Joe and Edna” episode of Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty, but the destructive power of his wounded pride and disillusionment is stronger even than his love for her. Their marriage falls ...
2 days ago · Both Lancaster and Curtis deliver strong performances, adding complexity to their morally flawed characters. The screenplay, written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, offers sharp dialogue and incisive social commentary, making it a standout in the film noir genre. More information can be found here. 16) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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).
4 days ago · PAUL KARLSTROM: What about [Clifford] Odets? VINCENT PRICE: Yes, Odets, Clifford, most definitely. PAUL KARLSTROM: So you knew him personally? VINCENT PRICE: Oh, yes, very well. And we did those two plays, and then Mercury Theater was really established and doing and. . . .
4 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.
