Tag Archives: Group Theatre

Clifford Odets and John Garfield, 1940

Posted on November 4, 2010 by sheila

Excerpts from The Time Is Ripe, the journal that Clifford Odets kept during the year 1940. That was the last year of the Group Theatre, which closed after the production of Odets’ Night Music (starring Elia Kazan), and Odets was … Continue reading →

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John Garfield in We Were Strangers (1949)

Posted on November 1, 2010 by sheila

John Huston’s gripping (and very sweaty) drama We Were Strangers tells of the fight of Cuban revolutionaries to take back their country, aided by an American (born in Cuba, forced to go into exile), played by John Garfield. Jennifer Jones … Continue reading →

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The Books: “The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journals of Clifford Odets”

Posted on October 22, 2008 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford Odets : With an Introduction by William Gibson Clifford Odets (playwright in the 30s and 40s – inspiration to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, a generation of … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Elia Kazan: A Life” (Elia Kazan)

Posted on September 30, 2008 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Elia Kazan: A Life, by Elia Kazan I met Elia Kazan once. It was in 1999 and I was working on a show at the Actors Studio. It was a production of Awake and Sing, … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Me: Stories Of My Life” (Katharine Hepburn)

Posted on September 6, 2008 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Me : Stories of My Life, by Katharine Hepburn If there was an editor within a 10-mile radius of Katharine Hepburn’s manuscript for this book, you would never know it. It’s full of dashes, interruptions … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Clifford Odets

Posted on July 18, 2008 by sheila

Clifford Odets (playwright in the 30s and 40s – inspiration to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, a generation of playwrights – and he inspires still although some of his plays have dated badly) kept a journal throughout his tumultuous life. One … Continue reading →

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The Books: “The Country Girl” (Clifford Odets)

Posted on January 16, 2006 by sheila

Next script on my script shelf: Next play in my little unalphabetized pile of Samuel French plays is The Country Girl, by Clifford Odets Odets. My man Odets. To my ear, nobody else sounds like him. He’s one of those … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Rocket to the Moon” (Clifford Odets)

Posted on August 23, 2005 by sheila

Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Another Clifford Odets play – Rocket to the Moon. First produced in 1938 (with the Group Theatre – all of Odets’ stuff in the beginning was done by the Group Theatre) Rocket to the … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Golden Boy” (Clifford Odets)

Posted on August 22, 2005 by sheila

Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Another Clifford Odets play – and this one is probably the most well-known of his plays (although I do not believe it is his best)- Golden Boy It was turned into a movie, first … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Paradise Lost” (Clifford Odets)

Posted on August 20, 2005 by sheila

Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Another Clifford Odets play – and this one is considered to be his best – Paradise Lost So far – the other plays I’ve mentioned have some kind of pretty heavy theme or plot. … Continue reading →

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