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Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

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Author Biography

Name: Clifford Odets
Birth Date: July 18, 1906
Death Date: April 14, 1963
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright

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Biography of Clifford Odets
855 words, approx. 2.9 pages
A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding dramatist in the 1930s. His colloquial dialogue, vital ideological protests on behalf of human dignity, and feeling for the family were distinctive. Clifford...
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Biography of Clifford Odets
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Clifford Odets is known primarily as a proletarian playwright of the 1930s, although this label is misleading. Odets's first few plays, which catapulted him virtually overnight to fame and affluence, reflect the experience of the Great Depression and hav...
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Biography of Clifford Odets
1603 words, approx. 5.3 pages
Born in Philadelphia to Louis J. and Pearl Geisinger Odets, Clifford Odets grew up in a Jewish section of the Bronx. Though Odets at times suggested that he was raised under the shadows of poverty, his father became a prosperous businessman in the 1920s,...


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Golden Boy Information
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Golden Boy may refer to: Golden Boy (play), a play by Clifford Odets Golden Boy (film), a 1939 film adaptation of the Odets play nickname of actor William Holden, who became a star after his breakthrough leading role in the film Golden Boy (musical), a...


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De La Hoya Punishes Mayorga, Mayweather Jr. Next?
5/8/2006: 365 words, approx. 1 pages
Now De La Hoya will have to make a very important decision as to who he will fight on September 16 – a fight he says will possibly be his last.Arguably the world's best pound-for-pound fighter, 'Pretty Boy' Floyd Mayweather, Jr. says he is positive...
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Bell tolls for De La Hoya, Mayweather
5/3/2007: 436 words, approx. 2 pages
After three months of verbal sparring, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya are just about ready to shut up and fight.Boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter and its most popular champion said little to spark controversy or antagonize each other Wednesday at the largest media...
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Uncle: Italian man who died in Mexican jail was not drunk, was having a heart attack
3/8/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
An autopsy of an Italian man who died in a Mexican jail after being hauled away for drunkenness and public disorder showed he was not drunk but suffered a heart attack, his uncle said Thursday.Simone Renda, 34, was detained March 1 after hotel employees at...
 


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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
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In the essay below, Clurman explores the allegorical nature of Golden Boy.
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Critical Review by Brooks Atkinson
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Atkinson compares the construction of the themes and dialogue in Golden Boy to a symphony.
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Critical Review by Stark Young
518 words, approx. 2 pages
In this assessment of Golden Boy, Young praises Odets' handling of dialogue, adding: "In this respect Mr. Odets is the most promising writer our theatre can show. "
 


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