Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mainly responsible for the decorations were Howland P. Hall, Clifford Fitchner, Thomas S. Morse, and Edward Dewey. Nicholas N. Solovioff drew the sketches which were the featured decorations in one of the two rooms used for dancing both of which were popular...
...reported last week in The Living Church by Clifford P. Morehouse, editor on leave for service with the Marines...
...Born. To Clifford Odets, 38, brilliant leftish playwright of the '30s (Waiting for Lefty), who cashed in on his talents as a Hollywood writer-director (None But the Lonely Heart), and Bette Grayson Odets, 26, his second wife: their (and his) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight...
Richard Llewellyn's novel told the sordid story of frustration and poverty in the slums of London, and hit the reader with the message that something must be done. In adapting the novel for Hollywood, Clifford Odets has purposefully subdued the sociology, and it is doubtful whether anyone, including Mr. Odets, actually knows what "None but the Lonely Heart" now means...
...Idol Gary Grant, a warm admirer of Novelist Richard Llewellyn's works, told RKO's Executive Producer Charles Koerner that he wanted to play the novel's pimply, adolescent, Cockney hero, Ernie Mott. It got a propitious leg-up when young Producer David Hempstead called in Clifford Odets to do the screen play. It got itself and Hollywood a new and gifted director when Odets took on that job, too. For still more luster, Producer Hempstead-and the script-enticed Ethel Barrymore back into pictures...