Clifford Odets

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

Works

Acted in:

• Midnight - 1930
• 1931 - 1931
• Big Night - 1933
• They All Come to Moscow - 1933
• Men in White - 1933
• Gold Eagle Guy - 1934

Wrote

• (1935) Waiting for Lefty
• (1935) Awake and Sing!
• (1935) Till the Day I Die
• (1935) Paradise Lost
• (1937) Golden Boy
• (1938) Rocket to the Moon
• (1940) Night Music
• (1941) Clash by Night
• (1942) The Russian People (adaptation)
• (1946) Humoresque
• (1946) Notorious (dialogue: love scenes; uncredited)
• (1946) Deadline at Dawn (screenplay)
• (1949) The Big Knife
• (1950) The Country Girl
• (1954) The Flowering Peach
• (1957) Sweet Smell of Success (screenplay)
• (1961) Wild in the Country (screenplay)

The Flowering Peach became the basis for the 1970 musical Two by Two.

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Golden Boy became the basis for a 1964 musical of the same name.

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His screenplay for the Sweet Smell of Success became the basis for the 2002 musical of the same name.

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A (very) loose retelling of Clifford Odets's trouble adapting to writing screenplays in Hollywood is the basis for the 1991 film Barton Fink.

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