Awake and Sing! (1972)
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Directors: Norman Lloyd, Robert Hopkins.
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Walter Matthau as Moe Axelrod |
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Ron Rifkin as Sam Feinschreiber |
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Felicia Farr as Hennie |
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Martin Ritt as Uncle Morty |
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Leo Fuchs as Jacob |
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Robert Lipton as Ralph Berger |
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John Myhers as Schlosser |
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Ruth Storey as Bessie Berger |
| Directing | Norman Lloyd | Director |
| Production | Norman Lloyd | Producer |
| Directing | Robert Hopkins | Director |
| Production | Jane Murray | Casting |
| Writing | Clifford Odets | Writer |
