Clifford Odets
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Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began t
Odets in 1938
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1937
Luise Rainer and Clifford Odets in January 1937, shortly before their marriage
Elia Kazan
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Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential d
Clifford Odets
…responded to HUAC's questions and reiterated names of Communist Party members who had been previously cited by his friend and former communist colleague Elia Kazan. Before Kazan's final testimony in April 1952, they agreed to name each other. Odets thereby avoided overt blacklisting, although the committee withheld…
Kazan c. 1950
Kazan (back row, right) with other members of the Group Theatre in 1938
Kazan in 1967
On the set of Splendor in the Grass (1961)