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
Fourteenth Street Theatre
…Peace on Earth (1933–34, by George Sklar and Albert Maltz) (126 perf.) Waiting for Lefty (1935, by Clifford Odets) Let Freedom Ring (1935–36) (108 perf…
Odets in 1938
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1937
Luise Rainer and Clifford Odets in January 1937, shortly before their marriage