After Odets ' one-act play Waiting for Lefty became a surprise hit, the Group announced it would mount a production of his full length drama Awake and Sing.

Odets eventually became the Group's primary playwright.

Odets was mesmerized by Clurman's talks, and became the last actor chosen for the Group Theatre's first summer of rehearsals in June, 1931, at Brookfield Center in Connecticut.

Written by Clifford Odets and directed by Odets and Sanford Meisner, the performance of Odets ' one-act play Waiting for Lefty, at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City, became a theatrical legend.

One aspect of this became known as Yiddish Theatre, and involved authors such as Ben Hecht and Clifford Odets.

In addition to Bogart, Lazar became the agent representing the top tier of celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noël Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, President Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams.

* 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.

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.

* Clifford Odets, playwright

Her defiance attracts the attention of Broadway playwright Clifford Odets, who convinces Frances that her future rests with the Group Theatre.

There she attracted the attention of director Harold Clurman and playwright Clifford Odets.

Clifford Odets ( July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963 ) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

The playwright George S. Kaufman queried, " Odets, where is thy sting?

marked a playwright as unique .″ Odets ' use of ethnic and urban speech patterns reflects the influence of another socialist playwright with proletarian concerns, Sean O ' Casey.

Odets was the subject of a critically acclaimed biography by psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, wife of playwright William Gibson: Clifford Odets – American Playwright – The Years from 1906 – 1940.

Waiting for Lefty is a 1935 play by American playwright Clifford Odets.

Carnovsky appeared in almost every major Group Theater production, often playing parts that had been written specifically for him by his good friend, the actor and playwright Clifford Odets.

Like most screenwriters of the time, Odets worked within the studio system until the advent of independent production in the 1950s.

In the ten years of its existence, the Group Theatre produced works by many important American playwrights, most notably Clifford Odets and Irwin Shaw.

CHAC was acknowledged as producing some of the most exciting theatre in Seattle: from Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Clifford Odets ' Waiting for Lefty to the Pacific Northwest premiere of Dario Fo's Archangels Don't Play Pinball.

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.

Returning to the city that had shunned him for going to Hollywood made Odets very neurotic and obsessed with all kinds of rituals as he worked at a furious pace, with pages often going straight from his typewriter to being shot the same day.

* 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.

Odets pursued acting with great passion and ingenuity.

Crawford suggested that Harold Clurman, then a play reader for the Guild, invite Odets to a meeting to discuss new theatre concepts they were developing with Lee Strasberg.

Odets trained with the Group at their various summer rehearsal headquarters located in the Connecticut countryside and the Catskills.

Odets asserted that all of his plays deal with the human spirit persevering in the face of any opponent, whether or not the characters are depicted as struggling with the capitalist system.

Arthur Miller observed that, with Odets ' first plays, ″ For the very first time in America, language itself.

Other hallmarks of Odets ' style are his humanistic point of view, and his way of dropping the audience right into the conflict with little or no introduction.

Odets was hospitalized in midsummer 1963 with advanced colon cancer.

Renoir dedicated a chapter of his autobiography to his friendship with Odets.

Kazan's autobiography also contains copious references to his relationship with Odets.

According to Arthur Miller, ″ An Odets play was awaited like news hot off the press, as though through him we would know what to think of ourselves and our prospects .″ Marian Seldes writes that, ″ Paddy Chayefsky, who felt competitive with Odets,.

While much work was done with the works of playwrights like Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, the Method was eventually applied to older works like those of William Shakespeare.

His other works include Dinny and the Witches ( 1948, revised 1961 ), in which a jazz musician incurs the wrath of three Shakespearean witches by blowing a riff which stops time ; the book for the musical version of Clifford Odets ' Golden Boy ( 1964 ), which earned him yet another Tony nomination ; A Mass for the Dead ( 1968 ), an autobiographical family chronicle ; A Cry of Players ( 1968 ), a speculative account of the life of young William Shakespeare ( with Anne Bancroft starring for Gibson once again, this time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway ); Goodly Creatures ( 1980 ), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson ; and Monday After the Miracle ( 1982 ), a continuation of the Helen Keller story.

This experience helped form the basis of his 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success, which he co-wrote with Clifford Odets.

* Sweet Smell of Success ( with Clifford Odets ) ( 1954 ) ( also Story )

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.

They invited her to appear in the Group Theatre production of Odets ' play Golden Boy.

The Group included Elia Kazan, Harry Morgan ( billed as Harry Bratsburg ), Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, John Garfield ( billed as Jules Garfield ), Canada Lee, Franchot Tone, Phoebe Brand, Ruth Nelson, Will Geer, Howard Da Silva, John Randolph, Joseph Bromberg, Michael Gordon, Paul Green, Clifford Odets, Paul Strand, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner, Marc Blitzstein, Anna Sokolow and Lee J. Cobb, Roman Bohnen and many others.

The play reflects a kind of street poetry that brought great acclaim to the Group, and to Odets as the new voice of social drama in the ' thirties.

Publishers Weekly wrote " The Group Theatre ... ith its self-defined mission to reconnect theater to the world of ideas and actions, staged plays that confronted social and moral issues ... ith members Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella and Luther Adler, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan and an ill-assorted band of idealistic actors living hand to mouth are seen welded in a collective of creativity that was also a tangle of jealousies, love affairs and explosive feuds.

With Group theatre she worked in plays like Success Story by John Howard Lawson, two Clifford Odets plays, Awake and Sing!

It was staged by the Group Theatre, a New York theatre company founded by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, of which Odets was a member.

Following his 1935 successes Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing !, Odets went to Hollywood to write The General Died at Dawn with the intention of using his salary to support the Group Theatre, the independent theatre company that had produced his earlier plays, despite his previous protests against large corporations, including movie studios.

The RKO Radio Picture was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate, screenwriter Odets.

Odets ' Group Theater colleague Roman Bohnen appears in a bit part, as a grief-stricken man with a dying cat.

Born in Chicago, he was a member of The Group Theater and performed in many of their productions, including Rocket to the Moon, Awake and Sing !, Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, all by Clifford Odets ; House of Connelly by Paul Green ; and Sidney Kingsley's Men in White.