Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing!

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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Top Cast

Walter Matthau

As Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin

As Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr

As Hennie

Martin Ritt

As Uncle Morty

Leo Fuchs

As Jacob

Robert Lipton

As Ralph Berger

John Myhers

As Schlosser

Ruth Storey

As Bessie Berger