Awake and Sing!

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Walter MatthauMoe Axelrod
    • Ron RifkinSam Feinschreiber
    • Felicia FarrHennie
    • Martin RittUncle Morty
    • Leo FuchsJacob
    • Robert LiptonRalph Berger
    • John MyhersSchlosser
    • Ruth StoreyBessie Berger