| Clifford Odets  Born: 18-Jul-1906
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Died: 14-Aug-1963
Location of death: Hollywood, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright, Screenwriter Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sweet Smell of Success Wrote the screenplay to Sweet Smell of Success. Father: Louis Odets (businessman)
Girlfriend: Frances Farmer (actress)
Girlfriend: Fay Wray (actress)
Wife: Luise Rainer (Austrian actress, Jewish, b. 12-Jun-1910, m. 1937, div. 1940)
Wife: Bette Grayson (m. 1943, div. 1951, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Nora (b. 1945, with Grayson)
Son: Walt Odets (b. 1947, with Grayson)
Mother: Pearl Geisinger
High School: (dropout)
Communist Party Joined 1934
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Story on Page One (13-Jan-1960)
None But the Lonely Heart (22-Sep-1944)
Wrote plays:
Waiting for Lefty (1935)
Awake and Sing! (1935)
Paradise Lost (1935)
Golden Boy (1937)
Rocket to the Moon (1938)
Night Music (1940)
Clash by Night (1941)
The Big Knife (1949)
The Country Girl (1950)
The Flowering Peach (1954)
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