Clifford Odets Collection, 1942-1967.

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Clifford Odets Collection, 1942-1967.

Comprises 15 letters from Odets to his cousin, Frank Lubner (1947-1963); 5 letters from Odets' biographer Margaret Brenman Gibson to Lubner (1964-1967); 2 photographs of Odets (1942 & 1943); newspaper obituary (1963); and four scripts by Odets: "The Big Knife" (1949), "The Country Girl" (1951), "The Flowering Peach" (1954), and "The Story on Page One" (1959).

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Gibson, Mary Brenman.

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Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963

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Playwright; New York, N.Y. From the description of Clifford Odets sketches. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 42743828 Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1906. He left school at age fourteen and worked as an actor in local New York theater groups and traveling stock companies until 1930. That same year the Group Theatre was formed. As one of the founding members, Odets continued acting, but found new release for his creativity in writing pl...

Lubner, Frank.

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