Clifford Odets

Died in 1963

Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia in 1906, into a Jewish family of Russian and Romanian immigrants, and grew up in the Bronx. He left high school for the theatre, played small parts and worked in radio, then joined the Group Theatre in 1931, of which he became the resident playwright. He produced four plays in 1935 alone, including the one that made his name, written in three days. He went to write in Hollywood as early as 1936. In 1952, before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he named names, and remained marked by it. He died in Los Angeles in 1963.

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TheatreGolden BoyClifford Odets · 1937Literature