Ebook {Epub PDF} The Country Girl by Clifford Odets

7 rows · The Country Girl. Clifford Odets. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., - Drama - 76 pages. 0 Author: Clifford Odets.  · The Country Girl. Septem by Larry Bangs. In the very first scene of Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl, Frank Elgin (Brian Crane), is auditioning for a play. In the course of improvising a character, he says: “I have to like him or I can’t get inside him.”. This single line of dialogue turns out to be a harbinger for all that www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. His wife Georgie, the titular country girl, is the only one who can keep him from falling apart completely. By today’s standards, it would be easy to dismiss her as the archetypal long-suffering wife, but Georgie has. The Country Girl is one of the rawest, most compelling pieces of literature I’ve ever read/5(10).

The Country Girl. Clifford Odets. Author bio(s) $ Qty: Full Length, Drama 6 men, 2 women Total Cast: 8, 5 Simple Interiors ISBN Apply for Rights. FEE: $ per performance. The Country Girl. by. Clifford Odets. · Rating details · ratings · 10 reviews. One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption. The Country Girl: Directed by George Seaton. With Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross. A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.

This adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage drama features Bing Crosby as the hard-drinking Frank Elgin, a once-popular Broadway star whose glory days have passed. When director Bernie Dodd (William. The Country Girl is a dramatic play by American playwright Clifford Odets which was subsequently adapted as a film of the same name in , starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. Uta Hagen played the title role of Georgie Elgin in its original production, with Paul Kelly as her husband Frank, and Steven Hill as theatre director Bernie Dodd. The Country Girl is being performed on Broadway for a limited run with some big name stars--Morgan Freeman, Peter Gallagher, and Frances McDormand. This is a re-make of a movie that starred Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and William Powell. Prior to seeing the live performance, I read this play.