There is much misinformation about Odets flying around the web on the occasion of Luise Rainer’s death. Misinformation regarding this most controversial of playwrights proliferates–yet another reason to issue a new, comprehensive biography, a daunting project which I’ve undertaken. Margaret Brenman-Gibson’s exhaustive Clifford Odets, American Playwright, covers only through 1940. Odets died in 1963.

I’ve just commented on someone else’s blog, dedicated to Luise Rainer, that the play that Odets was working on the night he and Rainer were married (8 Jan 1937) was not Rocket to the Moon, as was stated in the posting, but either The Silent Partner, a labor play that the Group Theatre repeatedly rejected, or an unfinished project to which he had turned his attention, about the Soviet novelist Ilya Ehrenburg.

Please bring to my attention any errata you might spot, in addition to any queries you might have, or anything of interest regarding Odets and his time period (1906-1963). Thanks–I need all the help I can get!