In nineteen thirty-seven, American playwright Clifford Odets wrote a play called "The Golden Boy."

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Most impressive of all was Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy, " a 19-character play about the rise and fall of an ambitious young boxer that was originally produced on Broadway in 1937.

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The Group Theater, headed by Harold Clurman, who helped blaze the trail for Method acting, went to see Frances Farmer in the show and hired them both for the Broadway production of Clifford Odets's play "Golden Boy" in 1937.

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