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
Luise Rainer
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Luise Rainer was a German-born film actress. She was the first thespian to win multiple Academy Awards, and the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birt
Clifford Odets
…on. They'd be, he assured me, the best plays of his life ... Cliff wasn't 'shot.' ... The mind and talent were alive in the man." Odets married actress Luise Rainer in January 1937, just months before she won her first of two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actress. They divorced in May 1940. He married actress…
Rainer in 1941
Rainer publicity photo in 1936
Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Anna Held (Rainer) exhibits her jewels to the envious Audrey Dane (Virginia Bruce, seated) in The Great Ziegfeld