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.

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.

The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.

The filmmaker was used to extensive rehearsals before a scene was shot and often found himself shooting a script page one or two hours after Odets had written it.

Odets was the man of the moment and he claimed to the press that Garfield was his " find "; that he would soon write a play just for him.

He was the inspiration for the character Chocolate Drop in Clifford Odets ' play Golden Boy.

It was made into the film Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), and the screenplay was written by Lehman and Clifford Odets.

Throughout his life, Bernstein demonstrated an enthusiasm for an even wider spectrum of the arts than his childhood interests would imply and, in 1959, when he was scoring The Story on Page One, he considered becoming a novelist and asked the film's screenwriter, Clifford Odets, to give him lessons in writing fiction.

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

Odets was born in Philadelphia to Louis Odets ( born Gorodetsky ) and Pearl Geisinger, Russian-and Romanian-Jewish immigrants, and raised in Philadelphia and the Bronx, New York.

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.

From the start, Odets was relegated to small roles and understudying other actors.

In May 1952, Odets was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HCUA ; more commonly, HUAC ).

Odets was reportedly tormented by public reaction to his testimony until his death in 1963.

Odets was hospitalized in midsummer 1963 with advanced colon cancer.

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,.

The Odets character was played by Jeffrey DeMunn in the film Frances, and by John Heard in the 1983 biography, Will There Be A Morning ?, both about Frances Farmer.

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.

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

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.

* 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.

** Golden Boy – Book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams.

Gibson married Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a psychotherapist and biographer of Odets, in 1940.

Primarily noted for stage roles, Hagen won her first Tony Award in 1951 for her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in Clifford Odets ' The Country Girl.

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.

* 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.

Odets eventually became the Group's primary playwright.

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 became the playwright most strongly identified with the Group, and its productions of Awake and Sing and Paradise Lost, both directed in 1935 by Harold Clurman, proved to be excellent vehicles for the Group's Stanislavskian aesthetic.

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.

Playwright William Gibson, a former student of Odets, completed the book.

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.

Odets ' biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name, starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for a 1964 musical.

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.

It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novella by Cornell Woolrich ( as William Irish ).