... ; however, he soon found his place in the world of theatre as a playwright. In 1935 Odets first play on Broadway, Waiting for Lefty, was a smash hit. His affiliation with the American Communist party is strongly noticeable in all most all of his early works and especially Waiting for Lefty. Awake and Sing came shortly after and helped establish Odets as a prominent ... views and understanding of the common man odets gave the world a moral tail mixed with his left wing views and inturn propelled waiting for lefty into the history books of American theatre. Odets views of social reform are...

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During the 1940s and 1950s there was a "witch hunt" against so called communists in America, led by Joseph McCarthy. In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee started an investigation of suspected Communists in the film industry. The investigation ruined hundreds of careers and tarnished hundreds of reputations. The Committee gained publicity by calling upon ... and socially. Those who were on the blacklist were not given job opportunities and many of their friends and family shunned. Many of those suspected were government workers, college professors, playwrights, Hollywood screenw...

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