the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of high school after two years to become an actor and a writer.

Theater

Odets pursued acting with great passion and ingenuity. At the age of 19, he struck out on his own, billing himself as "The Rover Reciter". Under this moniker, he participated in talent contests and procured bookings as a radio elocutionist. He appeared in several plays with Harry Kemp's Poet's Theatre on the Lower East Side. Odets was among America's first real disc jockeys at about

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