Clifford Odets


 
 

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 - August 18, 1963) was an American socialist playwright, screenwriter, and social protester.

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Odets was born in Philadelphia of Jewish immigrant parents and raised in the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of high school to pursue acting. He helped found the Group Theatre, an influential left-wing theatre company that specialized in experimental acting. He joined the Communist Party in 1934, although he left it after eight months.


 

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