Clash by Night (play)

Tallulah Bankhead and Lee J. Cobb headed the cast as Mae and Jerry Wilenski with Katherine Locke as Peggy Coffey and Joseph Schildkraut as Earl Pfeiffer.

Others in the cast were Seth Arnold, Ralph Chambers, Stephan Eugene Cole, Harold Grau, John F. Hamilton, William Nunn, Joseph Shattuck and Art Smith.

When the play was adapted to film a decade later by screenwriter Alfred Hayes, the setting was changed from Staten Island to Monterey, California, and the character names were altered from Wilenski to D'Amato.

Fritz Lang directed the 1952 black-and-white film noir/drama, Clash by Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Ryan.

Peter Marks reviewed in The New York Times: The Matthew Arnold poem has been a source for numerous titles, including Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night and Clifford Irving's On a Darkling Plain.

Kim Stanley as Mae D'Amato in the June 13, 1957 *Playhouse 90* production of Clifford Odets ' *Clash by Night* , directed by John Frankenheimer. She returned to *Playhouse 90* three years later (March 7, 1960) to portray Sarah Eubanks in Horton Foote 's adaptation of William Faulkner 's *Tomorrow* , directed by Robert Mulligan .