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Clifford Odets (1906–1963)

Auteur van Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays

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With Lillian Hellman, Odets remains one of the foremost U.S. dramatists of the 1930s. Born in Philadelphia, he became an actor about 1923 and joined the Group Theatre upon its founding in 1930. From then until its collapse in 1940, the Group Theatre produced seven plays by Odets, all of which toon meer reflect the Depression era in which they were written. His first play, Waiting for Lefty (1935), an agitprop play about strikers, was an enormous success. Most of his other plays of the 1930s, most notably Awake and Sing (1935) and Paradise Lost (1935), concern the economic and psychological plight of poor New York City Jewish families and heighten middle-class Jewish speech into a kind of poetry. After the collapse of the Group Theatre, Odets produced only four more plays. Odets was criticized, however, for betraying his leftist sympathies when he named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Clifford Odets

Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays (1939) 382 exemplaren
Notorious [filmopname] (1946) — Writer — 252 exemplaren
Waiting for Lefty. (1935) 107 exemplaren
Golden Boy (1937) 71 exemplaren
The Big Knife (1949) 25 exemplaren
Awake and Sing! (1935) 24 exemplaren
The Country Girl [1954 film] (1954) — Original play — 24 exemplaren
Clash by Night [1952 film] (1952) — Writer — 20 exemplaren
Golden Boy, the Book of a Musical (1965) 16 exemplaren
The Flowering Peach. (1954) 13 exemplaren
None But the Lonely Heart [1944 film] (1944) — Director — 11 exemplaren

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2024 movie #65. 1946. A post-war American agent (Grant) is sent to recruit the notorious daughter (Bergman) of a convicted Nazi spy to work her way into a Nazi scientist ring in Brazil. Then he falls for her, complicating the mission. Great Hitchcock movie. Watched on @tcm
 
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capewood | 11 andere besprekingen | Mar 30, 2024 |
2024 movie #45. 1954. A frumpy (Grace Kelly?!) is married to a washed up alcoholic stage actor (Crosby) who is fighting to hang on to his last chance star acting job. Kelly won her only Oscar for this film. Beating out sure favorite Judy Garland (A Star is Born).
 
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capewood | Mar 2, 2024 |
Hitchcock framed this wartime noir film around a debonair Cary Grant and the youthful beauty of Ingrid Bergman. Luxuriant black and white cinematography was added to this elegant love story set in the world of secret agents, giving it a lusciously romantic glow not found in his other films. The love story plays out against mounting suspense, making this one of his best films.

From sun-drenched Miami to exotic Brazil, this intertwined story of spies and romance is exciting to watch. American secret agent Delvin (Grant) is forced to use Alicia (Bergman) to get close to a suspected Nazi, Alexander Sebastion (Claude Rains). Alicia's father was convicted of being a German agent, and his playgirl daughter has been living fast and hard trying to forget ever since. Delvin reluctantly recruits her under orders from above and the vulnerable Alicia falls hard for him.

Her assignment must take top priority, so Delvin cannot let on that he too has fallen for her. Claude Rains does a good job as the deceptively dangerous Sebastion, in love with Alicia but growing more suspicious by the moment. His suspicions reach a fever pitch when her old friend Delvin arrives on the scene.

All Alicia wants is for Delvin to tell her not to get close to Sebastion. He can't, of course, and the romantic tension builds side by side with the suspense, creating an almost unbearable anxiety on two fronts.

The romance gets equal billing until Alicia and Delvin discover something in the wine cellar and Sebastion realizes she is a spy. Since Delvin has been reassigned to Spain, he may not be in time to save her. The famous staircase scene is just one highlight in a film filled with memorable images.

Hitchcock took an alluring Bergman, a handsome Grant, and a tightly written and suspenseful script, and made one of the most exciting and lusciously beautiful films in screen history. Ingrid Bergman is lovely and vulnerable and Cary Grant has his hands full keeping his feelings to himself so he can do his job. Don't miss this one. It is one of Hitchcock's best.
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Matt_Ransom | 11 andere besprekingen | Nov 19, 2023 |
Clash by night (dont le titre français Le démon s'éveille la nuit est tout aussi incompréhensible) est l'histoire de Mae (interprétée par Barbara Stanwick) qui revient chez son frère, après de longues années d'absence. Celui-ci est amoureux d'une adorable employée d'usine de poisson (irrésistible Marylin Monroe qui donne de la gaieté et de la lumière à ce film par ailleurs sombre et un peu morne).
Déprimée et semblant être revenue de tout, elle finit par épouser Jerry un capitaine de bateau de pêche, très bonhomme et très épris d'elle. Ils ne tardent pas à avoir une petite fille ensemble.
Rien n'arrive à éclairer Mae qui se traîne et se languit. Elle finit par succomber à Earl (interprété par Robert Ryan), le meilleur ami de Jerry dont ce dernier ne cesse de solliciter la compagnie.
Quand Jerry, homme simple et tendre, apprend leur relation, tout bascule.
Clash by night est donc un énième film sur une infidélité qui se développe par l'intermédiaire d'une relation amicale unissant initialement deux hommes.
Les comédiens sont impeccables mais la mise en scène, qui se traîne un peu, peine à captiver totalement le spectateur.
Mae incarne à merveille la femme passive des années 50 qui ne peut exister qu'à travers la relation avec un homme capable de lui donner confiance en elle. La condition de la jeune Peggy (Marylin Monroe) pourrait sembler plus avancée dans la mesure où elle travaille (bien qu'avec un emploi pénible et n'exigeant aucune qualification) et qu'elle tient régulièrement tête à son compagnon... tout en lui laissant toujours le dernier mot.
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