Awake and Sing! (1972)
Overview
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.
Cast
Walter Matthau
Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin
Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr
Hennie
Martin Ritt
Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs
Jacob
Robert Lipton
Ralph Berger
John Myhers
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