Clifford Odets
American playwright, screenwriter, and actor; a leading figure of the Group Theatre in the 1930s, best known for plays such as Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, and Golden Boy, and later for work in Hollywood.
Books
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1. The Big Knife
A hardened Hollywood star grapples with the corrosive compromises that built his success as a powerful studio executive and the scandal of his past threaten to destroy him; pressured, manipulated and haunted by guilt, he confronts the moral bankruptcy of the film industry and the personal cost of having traded integrity for fame, leading to a desperate, tragic choice that exposes the bleak reality behind the glamour.