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After Trumbo and the others were blacklisted, some Hollywood actors and directors, such as Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets, agreed to testify and to provide names of fellow communist party members to Congress.
* 1906 Clifford Odets, American writer ( d. 1963 )
While working in Hartford, Falk joined a community theater group called the Mark Twain Masquers, where he performed in plays that included The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Crucible, and The Country Girl by Clifford Odets.
* August 18 Clifford Odets, American playwright ( b. 1906 )
In Kazan's autobiography, Kazan writes of the " lasting impact on him of the Group ," noting in particular, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman as " father figures ", along with his close friendship with playwright Clifford Odets.
In 1935 he played the role of a strike-leading taxi driver in a drama by Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, and his performance was called " dynamic ," leading some to describe him as the " proletarian thunderbolt.
Along with Kazan were numerous other artists: Harry Morgan, John Garfield, Luise Rainer, Frances Farmer, Will Geer, Howard Da Silva, Clifford Odets, Lee J. Cobb and Irwin Shaw.
Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg.
Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize.
In 1955, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured the prize jury into presenting the Prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees (" amateurishly constructed ... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious "), instead of Clifford Odets ' The Flowering Peach ( their preferred choice ) or The Bad Seed, their second choice.
The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.
Mackendrick suggested Clifford Odets, the playwright whose reputation as a left-wing hero had been tarnished after he named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Though Mackendrick's direction of the actors and his staging of the scenes are at times extraordinary, in recent years critics have praised only the film's dialogue, " courtesy of Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, a high-toned street vernacular that no real New Yorker has ever spoken but that every real New Yorker wishes he could ", A. O. Scott wrote
There is also a booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick ’ s book On Film-making, introduced by the book ’ s editor, Paul Cronin.
Former studio employees named by Warner included Alvah Bessie, Howard Koch, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Robert Rossen, Dalton Trumbo, Clifford Odets, and Irwin Shaw.
* The Country Girl ( 1950 play ), a play by Clifford Odets
During the same period, Renoir produced in Paris the Clifford Odets play, The Big Knife, and wrote and produced in Paris for Leslie Caron his own play, Orvet.
Adapted by Clifford Odets from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by Odets, the movie stars Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, and Dan Duryea.
Clifford Odets had been a close friend of Garfield from the early days in the Bronx.
He was the inspiration for the character Chocolate Drop in Clifford Odets ' play Golden Boy.
* Clifford Odets, playwright
It was made into the film Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), and the screenplay was written by Lehman and Clifford Odets.
* Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty
* On a Darkling Plain by Clifford Irving, A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve, As On a Darkling Plain by Ben Bova ( the title refers to a Martian plain covered with strange unexplained artifacts ), Clash by Night, a play by Clifford Odets ( later made into a film noir by Fritz Lang ), " Ignorant Armies " by Sam Wharton, and Norman Mailer's National Book Award winner The Armies of the Night about the 1967 March on the Pentagon.

Clifford and July
As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.
* July 26 U. S. President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan and Stanley Clifford Weyman.
After he left office, Clifford, in the July 1969 issue of Foreign Affairs, made his views very clear: " Nothing we might do could be so beneficial ... as to begin to withdraw our combat troops.
* Booknotes interview with Clifford on Counsel to the President: A Memoir, July 28, 1991.
The Clifford Picnic is a fair usually celebrated during the last full week in July.
In a July 2011 interview with the Calgary Herald, John Fogerty, for the first time in over 20 years, admitted that he would at least be willing to consider reuniting with Cook and Clifford.
According to nightclub owner Clifford Antone, who opened Antone's in 1975, Vaughan jammed with Albert King at Antone's in July 1977 and almost " scared him to death ", saying that " it was the best I've ever saw Albert or the best I ever saw Stevie ".
At the age of 22 he married the 21-year-old Lady Elizabeth Clifford, daughter of Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland, on 5 July 1635 in Skipton Castle.
From October 1922 to July 1924 Spare edited, jointly with Clifford Bax, the quarterly, Golden Hind for Chapman and Hall publishers.
* 25 July 1832 8 February 1877: Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford
The controversial then boss of Harrods Mohamed Fayed retained Max Clifford Associates in July 2000 to ' polish up ' his image.
Clifford is regarded as being one of the shrewdest practitioners of his trade, and in July 2005 he told reporters that he would not represent Michael Jackson after he was found innocent of child abuse charges, saying: " It would be the hardest job in PR after Saddam Hussein ".
On July 23, 2008, Novak received a citation from police for " failing to yield a right of way " to an 86-year-old pedestrian, Don Clifford Liljenquist, who was hit by Novak's Corvette in slow-moving traffic.
The discovery of the wreck was made in July 1984 by a diving crew led and funded by underwater explorer Barry Clifford.
* July 20-Thomas Clifford Allbutt ( died 1925 ), physician.
#*" Nano Comes to Clifford Falls ," ( ss ) Asimov ’ s July 2006 ; read online
In July 1946, President Truman enlisted the services of one of his senior advisers, Clark Clifford, to prepare a report on Soviet relations that would provide detail on Soviet disregard for post-war agreements.
Clifford William Robinson ( September 1, 1866 July 27, 1944 ) was a New Brunswick lawyer, businessman and politician, the 12th Premier of New Brunswick.
As a military officer, Clifford was assigned to the Johnson Space Center in July 1987.
Selected as an astronaut by NASA in July 1990, Clifford has served in a variety of technical assignments.
John Clifford Pemberton ( August 10, 1814 July 13, 1881 ), was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Seminole Wars and with distinction during the Mexican American War.
Nathan Clifford ( August 18, 1803 July 25, 1881 ) was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist, whose career culminated in a lengthy period of service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Clifford Bax ( 13 July 1886 18 November 1962 ) was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer.

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