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The Big Knife

Book by Clifford Odets; Random House, 1949

Subjects:

Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THE BIG KNIFE THE BIG KNIFE By CLIFFORD ODETS RANDOM HOUSE...by Clifford Odets SECOND PRINTING...warned that THE BIG KNIFE, being fully protected...WITH LOVE The Big Knife was first presented...with Strasberg and Odets, at the National...
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Six Plays of Clifford Odets

Book by Clifford Odets; Modern Library, 1939

Subjects:

Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...BESSIE: Im so nervous I cant hold a knife in my hand. MYRON: Is that a way to talk...JACOB: I gave the dog eat. HENNIE drops a knife and picks it up again. BESSIE: You got...When I was your age it was already a big family with responsibilities. HENNIE...
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Three Plays
Includes: Awake and Sing; Waiting for Lefty; Till the Day I Die

Book by Clifford Odets; Random House, 1935

Subjects:

Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the dog eat. HENNIE drops a knife and picks it up again . BESSIE...was your age it was already a big family with responsibilities...MOE: Thats why they had the big war--to make a new world, they...safe for democracy. Sure every big general laying up--in a Paris...
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Golden Boy: A Play in Three Acts

Book by Clifford Odets; Random-House, 1937

Subjects:

Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...out proudly Yes, its broke. TOKIO slowly reaches for a knife. He begins carefully to cut the glove . JOE Hallelujah!! Its...LEWIS Clinching a cigarette at the desk Hows that big blonde of yours, Tom? MOODY Fine. LEWIS How does she feel...
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Paradise Lost: A Play in Three Acts

Book by Clifford Odets; Random House, 1936

Subjects:

Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...LIBBY I married a man with a big future. KEWPIE Good in the...KEWPEE Who said--? LIBBY Youll knife him in the back! KEWPIE Who...CLARA Whats the matter, big boy? JULIE Momma, I dont know...wonderful guy--a musician with a big head of hair. Have a good time...

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Sinners, Scandals, Scoundrels, and Scamps on the American Jewish Stage

Journal article by Ellen Schiff; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003

Subjects:

Jews--Portrayals, Rakes, rogues, and villains--Demographic aspects, Rakes, rogues, and villains--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...All ... who were thieves, knife-stickers, throat-slitters, purse-cutters...1977), 197. (15.) Clifford Odets, Awake and Sing! in Six Plays of Clifford Odets (New York, 1979), 101. (16.) Gerald Weales, Clifford Odets: Playwright (New York, 1985...
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Ambush at Kamikaze Pass

Journal article by Tom Engelhardt; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 3, 1971

Subjects:

Asia

Collections: Entire Library

...and Akim Tamiroff as the warlord Yang (seems to have been a pretty popular name among warlords mothers). This Clifford Odets script hangs heavy with the hand of the 30s Left. ("You ask me why Im for oppressed people, because I have a background of...

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Competing with Idiots

Magazine article by Laurence Maslon; American Theatre, Vol. 12, October 1995

Subjects:

Hollywood, California--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Motion picture industry--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...soon be over. Clifford Odets clearly wasnt made for...His 1950 melodrama The Big Knife lays every possible moral...beginning with Odetss The Big Knife. Studio head Marcus Hoff...and moral center of The Big Knife, The Disenchanted, Angel...
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Theater's New Stage

Magazine article by Herb Greer; World and I, Vol. 15, July 2000

Subjects:

Theater--Chronologies

Collections: Entire Library

...later wrote another protest play, The Big Knife, about the victimization of a talented writer by a big nasty producer. Odets victims, however, showed a certain spirit...grim little piece out of London called Big Baby, in which a gifted child is helplessly...
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Are We Not Jews?

Magazine article by Kara Manning; American Theatre, Vol. 17, November 2000

Subjects:

Jewish drama--Analysis, Religion and drama--Analysis, Religious drama--Analysis, Theater--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...I love the edge of it, like a knife; I love the way people misapprehend...the hateful stereotypes--"the big noses, big cars, big breasts...guarded, writers like Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, S.N. Behrman...characters, so this will be a big hit! But then again, that may...
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Season Preview 2002-03

Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 19, October 2002

Collections: Entire Library

...and Sing, Clifford Odets; dir: David Ellenstein...Mark Taper Forum Big River, book: William...Alternative Guest. Fall. A Knife in the Heart, Susan...Second Stage: The Big Bang, book and lyrics...Golden Boy, Clifford Odets; dir: Heidi Cline...Various Locations: Big Sea Theater Festival...

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Hollywood Will Stab You in the Back

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 1, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Wednesday through Feb. 17 Clifford Odets wrote "The Big Knife" after nine years as a scriptwriter...glitter of Hollywoods surface. ``The Big Knife opens next week in a student production...graduate student Steve Wehmeier. `Odets asks what the price of humanity...
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For Bogdanovich, It's 'All about Actors'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 9, 2004

Subjects:

Bogdanovich, Peter, Hepburn, Audrey

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...began with acting and directing for the stage. His first coup was talking playwright Clifford Odets into approving an off-Broadway revival of "The Big Knife." Summoning the authority of his most famous mentor, Mr. Bogdanovich says: "Orson Welles...
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Brigitte Bardot Exposes What's Right about Mostly Unexciting 'Contempt'

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, July 27, 1997

Subjects:

Bardot, Brigitte, Godard, Jean-Luc

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Rod Steiger in a mutual project: as a maniacal film producer in the 1955 movie version of Clifford Odets hate letter to Hollywood, "The Big Knife." "Contempt" would be unbearable without the picturesque allure and distraction provided by the living...

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Odets, Clifford

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to self-conscious dramas of the individual, such as The Big Knife (1949), The Country Girl (1950), and The Flowering...See The Time is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford Odets (1988); biographies by E. Murray (1968), G. C. Weales...

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