Movie: Awake and Sing!

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Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau

Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin
Ron Rifkin

Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr
Felicia Farr

Hennie

Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt

Uncle Morty

Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs

Jacob

Robert Lipton
Robert Lipton

Ralph Berger

John Myhers
John Myhers

Schlosser

Ruth Storey
Ruth Storey

Bessie Berger

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    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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    1972-06-03

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