Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Odets was widely seen as successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill as O'Neill began to retire from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash in the mid-1930s. From early 1935 on, Odets' socially relevant dramas proved extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. Odets' works inspired the next several generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, David Mamet, and Jon Robin Baitz. After the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 July 1906
CountryUnited States of America
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Mr President, the president is dead.
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
Sex is the poor man's polo.
There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?