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...
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...
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,...
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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Golden Boys 07/22/2004: 1,926 words, approx. 6 pages
BASEBALL'S HALL OF FAME GOLDEN BOYS Several active players locks to get in By TOM HAUDRICOURT thaudricourt@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Thursday, July 22, 2004 St. Louis -- With Hall of Fame officials breaking out the good china, waxing the floors...
It's tempting to say the world really doesn't need any more earnest young singer-songwriters right now, but by the end of Out Come The Wolves, the first track on Oregon-based Jacob Golden's debut album Revenge Songs (Sawtooth, 12.99 inc pp, 01634 832 789, out...
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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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