Clifford Odets
Nascimento : 1906-07-18, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Morte : 1963-08-18
História
Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, director, screenwriter, and actor.
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Author
Can Los Angeles of the 30’s be effectively placed alongside modern 21st century Los Angeles? As a true experiment, Awake and Sing mixes periods and genres taking pleasure not in easy solutions, but in the search for a form or way of telling that has to be tried out, discovered.
Writer
Director Bernie Dodd hires alcoholic has-been actor Frank Elgin and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife Georgia.
Theatre Play
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
Writer
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Screenplay
Glenn Tyler quer ser um escritor de sucesso, porém, os conflitos de sua vida pessoal parecem demais para ele, até que ele envolve-se romanticamente com três mulheres, uma rica, uma psicóloga e uma espevitada, as três querem levá-lo a curtição e loucura total.
Writer
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Director
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
Um poderoso filme sobre um impiedoso jornalista e um assessor de imprensa inescrupuloso que vão fazer de tudo para alcançar o sucesso, esta "fascinante e irresistível história" de uma "rigorosa direção e diálogos afiados".Abrilhantada pelas vívidas performances de Curtis e Lancaster essa exposição dos podres da corrupção das metrópoles é um eterno clássico que machuca fundo e envia uma mensagem quase arrepiante.É tarde da noite nas neblinosas ruas de Nova York, repleta de neons acesos na Times Square e com o nervosismo fervoroso característico da ciade. Mas o assessor de imprensa Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) está desatento para o alvoroço dos vendedores de rua, garotas de programa e golpistas ao seu redor enquanto ele impacientemente espera pela edição matinal do jornal The Globe. A carreira de quem o fofoqueiro colunista J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) terá levado hoje...e qual ele terá destruído?
Screenplay
Um poderoso filme sobre um impiedoso jornalista e um assessor de imprensa inescrupuloso que vão fazer de tudo para alcançar o sucesso, esta "fascinante e irresistível história" de uma "rigorosa direção e diálogos afiados".Abrilhantada pelas vívidas performances de Curtis e Lancaster essa exposição dos podres da corrupção das metrópoles é um eterno clássico que machuca fundo e envia uma mensagem quase arrepiante.É tarde da noite nas neblinosas ruas de Nova York, repleta de neons acesos na Times Square e com o nervosismo fervoroso característico da ciade. Mas o assessor de imprensa Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) está desatento para o alvoroço dos vendedores de rua, garotas de programa e golpistas ao seu redor enquanto ele impacientemente espera pela edição matinal do jornal The Globe. A carreira de quem o fofoqueiro colunista J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) terá levado hoje...e qual ele terá destruído?
Additional Writing
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
Writer
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
Theatre Play
Um diretor contrata um alcoólatra e inicia um relacionamento tempestuoso com a esposa do ator, que ele acredita ser a causa de todos os problemas do homem.
Theatre Play
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Screenplay
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Additional Writing
Localizado no Rio de Janeiro, conta a história de Alicia e Devlin, dois polos completamente opostos que acabam se apaixonando devido ao tempo em que trabalharam juntos. Ela é filha de um espião alemão preso pelo governo dos EUA e, para evitar a morte do pai, é obrigada a ajudar o governo americano a prender inimigos mais importantes. Ele é um agente do governo que vai comandar a operação, monitorando para que tudo saia nas mais perfeitas condições planejadas.
Screenplay
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Additional Writing
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Additional Writing
Ascensão de George Gershwin, de uma editora musical em Manhattan aos píncaros da fama internacional. O excesso de trabalho cobra seu preço e Gershwin falece aos trinta e nove anos, de hemorragia cerebral, em 1937.
Writer
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Director
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Theatre Play
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Adaptation
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
Screenplay
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
