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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... summary from source:
 Biography of Clifford Odets
9999 words, approx. 33.3 pages
 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... summary from source:
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,...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Rocket to the Moon Information
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (aka Rocket to the Moon ) is a 1967 British science fiction comedy directed by Don Sharp and produced by Harry Alan Towers . Towers (as "Peter Welbeck") devised the story, very loosely based on From the Earth to the...
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 The Washington Post With Rocket, Yanks Shoot the Moon
05/08/2007: 1,108 words, approx. 4 pages Ever since Roger Clemens left Boston 11 years ago, the Red Sox have not let anybody wear No. 21, presumably in his honor, but just as likely in hopes that, as the great karmic wheel of baseball turned, they might one day get him... summary from source:
The Washington Post 'Rocket to the Moon': To Infidelity and Beyond
09/04/2001: 635 words, approx. 2 pages The terrific co-production between Theater J and Woolly Mammoth of the Clifford Odets play "Rocket to the Moon" is as combustible as the title suggests. It takes less than 10 minutes for Howard Shalwitz and Amy McWilliams, as harried dentist Ben Stark and his... summary from source:
 greatreporter.com Barrow, John D.
12/31/2006: 474 words, approx. 2 pagesExplorations of such subjects as the nature of the universe, nothingness, and infinity characterized the work of John D. Barrow , the winner of the 2006 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities. The limitless scope of his curiosity was exemplified... summary from source:
AP News Review: `Moon' doc tingles with optimism
9/19/2007: 642 words, approx. 2 pagesIt may seem hard to remember these days and even harder to believe, but there was a time when the United States seemed united in the spirit of a common goal: rocketing to the moon during the summer of 1969.Director David Sington's documentary "In the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
687 words, approx. 2 pages
The tendency still persists to make of Clifford Odets and his plays a political issue. That, I think, is a pity from any point of view now that the facts are becoming increasingly clear. Whatever his opinions may have been or; for that matter, may still be, those opinions are shared by many, while Mr. Odets reveals a gift for characterization and a gift for incisive dialogue unapproached by any of his Marxian fellows and hardly equaled by any other American playwright. "Rocket to the Moon" &#x... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Time
415 words, approx. 1 pages
Stripped to the bone, Rocket to the Moon is a triangle play; the story of a kindly, thin-blooded, tired dentist … who has accepted life at prevailing odds, surrendered to routine, "gone to sleep." His bitter nagging wife and his sinister, mocking father-in-law … appreciate his goodness, yet cannot help taunting him. From a romantic young girl … in his office who is fighting to live, do, go somewhere, and who loves him, he gets sympathy. Suddenly he finds himself in love wi...
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Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets | |
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