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''Clash by Night'' is a romantic triangle drama by Clifford Odets which premiered on Broadway in 1941 and was later adapted to film and television. The title derives from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" (1867): :Ah, love, let us be true :To one another! for the world, which seems :To lie before us like a land of dreams, :So various, so beautiful, so new, :Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, :Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; :And we are here as on a darkling plain :Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, :Where ignorant armies clash by night. ==Broadway== The title carried a certain irony when Odets' play, produced by Billy Rose, debuted on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre three weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack. Directed by Lee Strasberg, the production opened December 27, 1941 and ran for a total of 49 performances before closing on February 7, 1942. Tallulah Bankhead and Lee J. Cobb headed the cast as Mae and Jerry Wilenski with Katherine Locke as Peggy Coffey and Joseph Schildkraut as Earl Pfeiffer. Boris Aronson designed the setting of the Wilenski home on Staten Island in the summer of 1941. While Robert Ryan was acting in a 1941 summer stock production of ''A Kiss for Cinderella'' with actress Luise Rainer, he was seen by Odets (Rainer's ex-husband), who offered him the juvenile role of Joe Doyle in ''Clash by Night''. Others in the cast were Seth Arnold, Ralph Chambers, Stephan Eugene Cole, Harold Grau, John F. Hamilton, William Nunn, Joseph Shattuck and Art Smith. Despite the short run on Broadway, the play was published by Random House in 1942. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clash by Night (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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