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3 days ago · There's actually a 1935 play of the same name written by Clifford Odets. It's about a group of people who are waiting for a man named "Lefty," who ultimately never shows up.
4 days ago · And since they were an ensemble theater collective, in addition to sharing income, they shared acting roles (fairly) evenly across their work. In 1934, they would produce one of their most renowned productions: Clifford Odets’ “Waiting for Lefty.” A play about the New York Taxicab Union Strike from 1934-35, it famously ended with the ...
2 days ago · by Clifford Odets in 1935. This was one of the first prominent American family dramas by Clifford Odets, who was a son of Jewish immigrants and grew up in New York. It was about his family and their economic and political struggles.
5 days ago · The degradation of journalism in a film loosely based on columnist Walter Winchell. A brutal film noir with outstanding performances by Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman . . . and New York at 3 a.m. in the '50s looks great. The Thin Red Line (1998), directed by Terrence Malick. A war movie for ...
5 days ago · During this time he continued to act in theatre including Arthur Miller's After the Fall (1964), Clifford Odets's The Country Girl (1972) earning Tony Award nominations for both.
5 days ago · I was energized by stories of workers fighting for their rights against the elites — at Haymarket, at the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, on the railways where the Pullman sleeping car porters struggled for decent wages a few years after that. My heroes were all on the left: John Reed, Clifford Odets, Frances Perkins and Hubert Humphrey.
4 days ago · Capra received his second Academy Award for best director for Mr. Deeds, which was nominated for best picture. Capra then took a full year, reportedly shot enough footage to make a dozen features, and spent more than $2 million (Columbia’s biggest budget to date) filming Lost Horizon (1937).
