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Eugene O'Neill
[1888-1953]
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
— Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill entry at Wikipedia
Primary Works
browse Eugene O'Neill books catergory at Amazon
Eugene O'Neill credits [1923-2009] at Internet Broadway Database
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O'Neill: Complete Plays, 1913–1920 [1988] Edited by Travis Bogard
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/88] for $29.20 includes The Glencairn Cycle [4 one-act plays; 1913-17], "Beyond The Horizon" [1918], "Anna Christie" [1920], "The Emperor Jones" [1920] and 22 other plays O'Neill: Complete Plays, 1920–1931 [1988] Edited by Travis Bogard Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/88] for $26.40 includes "The Hairy Ape" [1921], "Marco Millions" [1923-25], "Desire Under The Elms" [1924], "The Great God Brown" [1925], "Strange Interlude" [1928], "Mourning Becomes Electra" [1931] and 7 other plays O'Neill: Complete Plays, 1932–1943 [1988] Edited by Travis Bogard Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/88] for $23.10 includes plays "Ah, Wilderness!" [1932], "Days Without End" [1932-33], "More Stately Mansions" [1935-41], "A Touch of The Poet" [1935-42], "The Iceman Cometh" [1939], "Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1939-41], "Hughie" [1941-42], "A Moon For The Misbegotten" [1943], and the story "Tomorrow" [1917] |
"Beyond The Horizon" [1918] won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"The Emperor Jones" [1920]
"Anna Christie" [1921] won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Christie
 | "Anna Christie" [Ince/First National Nov 1923 silent] The title character, raised in far Minnesota, returns to live with her fisherman father. A shipwrecked Scottish seaman falls in love with her, but she resists her attraction to him. The father tries to stop the romance, and the girl resents the men's assumed control over her life. She reveals the tragic events of the past 15 years; the men react, followed by a kind of forgiveness. Produced & co-directed by Thomas H. Ince; co-directed by John Griffith Wray; based on the 1921 play by Eugene O'Neill; starring Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion, Eugenie Besserer, Ralph Yearsley & Chester Conklin video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"Anna Christie" [M.G.M. Feb 1930] "Garbo talks!" The title character, raised in far Minnesota, returns to live with her fisherman father. A shipwrecked Scottish seaman falls in love with her, but she resists her attraction to him. The father tries to stop the romance, and the girl resents the men's assumed control over her life. She reveals the tragic events of the past 15 years; the men react, followed by a kind of forgiveness. Co-produced & directed by Clarence Brown; script by Frances Marion [1886-1973], based on the 1921 play by Eugene O'Neill; starring Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack & Lee Phelps; Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Actress & Best Cinematography The DVD includes both the English- & German-language versions Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2005] for $17.99 M.G.M. b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb • 1930 movie entry at Wikipedia blue 27"x40" poster (top) from Amazon for $19.99
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 | "Anna Christie" [M.G.M. Jan 1931] "Garbo talks!" in German! An example of Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production during the early talkies. This German-language version was made on the same sets after the 1930 version was completed, the only duplicate cast member was Garbo. (She considered this to be the better version.) Directed by Jacques Feyder; German script & dialogue by Walter Hasenclever & Frank Reicher; starring Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel & Herman Bing The DVD includes both the English- & German-language versions Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2005] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • 1931 movie entry at Wikipedia |
The 1957 George Abbott-Bob Merrill musical "New Girl In Town" was based on O'Neill's play
Gwen Verdon won Tony Award
"The Hairy Ape" [1921]
"Marco Millions" [1923-25]
"All God's Chillun Got Wings" [1924]
"Desire Under The Elms" [1924]
"The Great God Brown" [1925]
"Lazarus Laughed" [1925-26]
"Strange Interlude" [1928] won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"Dynamo" [1929]
"Mourning Becomes Electra" [1931]
"Ah, Wilderness!" [1932] O'Neill's only comedy
http://www.amazon.com/Ah-Wilderness-Eugene-ONeill/dp/1432580027/
http://www.amazon.com/ONeills-Wilderness-Broadway-Theatre-Archive/dp/B00005R1NT/
"Ah, Wilderness!" [1935] /tt0026046/
Directed by Clarence Brown; starring Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon,
Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington & Mickey Rooney (age 15)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002EAYDMU
"Ah, Wilderness!" [1938 TV] /tt0412306/
"Days Without End" [1932-33]
"More Stately Mansions" [1935-41]
"A Touch of The Poet" [1935-42, first performed 1958]
"The Iceman Cometh" [1939]
opened at the Martin Beck Theater on NYC's Broadway 9/2/46
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1939-41] won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"Hughie" [1941-42]
"A Moon For The Misbegotten" [1943]
Other Works
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The Glencairn Plays
"Bound East For Cardiff" [one-act play]
"In The Zone" [one-act play]
"The Long Voyage Home" [one-act play]
"Moon of The Caribbees" [one-act play]
"The Long Voyage Home"
[Walter Wanger/United Artists Nov 1940]
Produced & directed by John Ford; script by Dudley Nichols, based on stage plays by Eugene O'Neill; cinematography
by Gregg Toland; starring John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick
& Ward Bond; Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best B&W Cinematography, Best Editing,
Best Special Effects, Best Original Score • full credits from IMDb
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"A Wife For A Life" [one-act play]
"Before Breakfast" [one-act play]
"Calms of Capricorn" [play]
"Diff'rent" [play]
"The Dreamy Kid" [play]
"The First Man" [play]
"Fog" [one-act play]
"The Fountain"
"Gold: A Play In Four Acts" ISBN-13: 9780548498590
"Ile" [one-act play]
"The Movie Man" [one-act play]
"The Sniper" [one-act play]
"The Straw" [play]
"Thirst" [one-act play]
"The Web" [one-act play]
Monologue Archive: eight by Eugene O'Neill
Poetry Archive: eight by Eugene O'Neill
 | "Children of The Sea & Three Other Unpublished Plays by Eugene O'Neill" [1972] Edited by Jennifer McCabe Atkinson Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. hardcover [3/72] out of print/used |
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"Poems by Eugene O'Neill, 1912-1944" [1980] Edited by Donald Gallup Ticknor & Fields hardcover [5/80] out of print/used |
 | "Eugene O'Neill At Work: Newly Released Ideas For Plays" [1981] Edited by Virginia Floyd Frederick Unger 9x6 pb [3/88] for $15.95 Frederick Unger hardcover [10/81] out of print/used |
 | "Unfinished Plays: Notes For The Visit of Malatesta, The Last Conquest and Blind Alley Guy by Eugene O'Neill" [1988] Edited & Annotated by Virginia Floyd Frederick Unger 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/88] out of print/many used |
 | "Conversations With Eugene O'Neill" [1990] Edited Mark W. Estrin Univ Press of MS 9x6 pb [11/90] for $20.00 Univ Press of MS 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/90] out of print/used |
 | "Collected Shorter Plays" [2007] by Eugene O'Neill, Introduction by Robert Brustein Yale Univ Press 7¾x5 pb [2/2007] for $12.44 contains "Bound East For Cardiff", "Fog", "The Hairy Ape", "Hughie", "Ile", "In The Zone", "The Long Voyage Home", "The Moon of The Caribbees", and "Thirst" |
Motion Pictures
Eugene O'Neill credits [over 60 entries] at Internet Movie Database
browse Eugene O'Neill DVDs at Amazon
"Kiri no Minato" [Japan July 1923 silent]
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; written by Soichiro Tanaka, based on O'Neill's play "Anna Christie"; starring Harue
Ichikawa, Eijirô Mori, Haruko Sawamura & Kaichi Yamamoto; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Anna Christie" [Ince/First National Nov 1923 silent]
Produced & co-directed by Thomas H. Ince; starring Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion,
Eugenie Besserer, Ralph Yearsley & Chester Conklin; see above for poster, DVD, video availability
"Qali Bazrobidan" [Russia April 1928]
Co-written & directed by Giorgi Makarov; based on O'Neill's play "Desire Under the Elms";
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb
"Anna Christie" [M.G.M.]
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"Garbo talks!" O'Neill's stageplay "Anna Christie" was chosen for Garbo's first sound feature film, and was an example of Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production during the early talkies. The German-language version was made on the same sets after the 1930 English version was completed, the only duplicate cast member was Garbo. (She considered this to be the better version.) see above for posters, DVDs, videos |
"Strange Interlude" [1932]
"The Constant Woman" [1933] based on the play "Recklessness"
"The Emperor Jones" [1933]
"Ah, Wilderness!" [1935]
"The Long Voyage Home"
[Walter Wanger/United Artists Nov 1940]
Produced & directed by John Ford; script by Dudley Nichols, based on 'The Glencairn Plays' by Eugene O'Neill;
starring John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick
& Ward Bond; Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best B&W Cinematography, Best Editing,
Best Special Effects, Best Original Score;
full credits from IMDb
"The Hairy Ape" [1944]
"Mourning Becomes Electra" [1947]
"Summer Holiday" [1948] based on play "Ah, Wilderness!"
"Desire Under The Elms" [1958]
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1962]
"The Iceman Cometh" [American Film Theatre Nov 1973]
 | Directed by John Frankenheimer; adapted by Thomas Quinn Curtiss, from the Eugene O'Neill play; starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, Hildy Brooks & Moses Gunn
Kino Video widescreen color DVD [4/2003] 2 disks for $26.99 Kino Video color VHS [4/2003] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Viaje por una Larga Noche" [1977]
Television
Eugene O'Neill credits [over 60 entries] at Internet Movie Database
"Anna Christie" [1936 TV]
"Ah, Wilderness!" [1938 TV]
"The Emperor Jones" [1938 TV]
"Marco Millions" [1939 TV]
"All God's Chillun' Got Wings" [1946 TV]
"Ah, Wilderness!" episode of "Celanese Theatre" [1951 TV]
"Anna Christie" episode of "Celanese Theatre" [1952 TV]
"Ile" episode of "Lux Video Theatre" [1952 TV]
"Tran" [1954 TV]
"The Emperor Jones" [1955 TV]
"Ile" episode of "Star Tonight" [1955 TV]
"Ah, Wilderness!" episode of "Front Row Center" [1955 TV]
"The Emperor Jones" episode of "Kraft Television Theatre" [1955 TV]
"The Straw" episode of "Kraft Television Theatre" [1955 TV]
"Emperor Jones" episode of "Armchair Theatre" [1958 TV]
"Hughie" [1958 TV]
"Ah, Wilderness!" episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame" [1959 TV]
"Waar het kruis staat" [1959 TV]
"O Wildnis" [1959 TV]
"Hughie" [1960 TV]
"Los Acosados" [1960 TV]
"Anna Christie" [1960 TV mini-series]
"The Iceman Cometh" [CBS-TV Nov 1960]
 | Kinescope of a live TV broadcast. A high-rolling gambler revisits Harry Hope's saloon (circa 1912, New York City) having changed his ways and determined to help the drifters, alcoholics & prostitutes who have come to depend on his 'generosity' • Directed by Sidney Lumet; starring Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, James Broderick, Farrell Pelly, Robert Redford, Sorrell Booke & Julie Bovasso
Image Ent. 240-minute b&w DVD [1/2002] 2 disks for $22.49 Kultur Video 240-minute b&w VHS [12/99] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Iceman Cometh" 2-episode broadcast on "Play of The Week" [1960 TV]
"Fast ein Poet" [1961 TV] based on the play "A Touch of The Poet"
"Wilde jeugd" [1961 TV]
"Ein Mond für die Beladenen" [1961 TV] based on the play "A Moon For The Misbegotten"
"Ljuva ungdomstid" [1961 TV] basedon on the play "Ah, Wilderness!"
"Nederlandse Omroepstichting" [1962 TV]
"Voorbij de kim" [1965 TV]
"Derrière l'Horizon" [1966 TV]
"Más allá del Horizonte" episode of "Estudio 1" [1966 TV]
"Der Strick" [1966 TV]
"Oh, Divljino" [1967 TV] based on the play "Ah, Wilderness!"
"Fast ein Poet" [1968 TV] based on the play "A Touch of the Poet"
"Der Eismann Kommt" [1968 TV]
"Trauer muss Elektra Tragen" [1970 TV]
"Il Lutto si Addice ad Elettra" [1972 TV]
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1973 TV]
"Le Deuil sied à Electre" [1974 TV mini-series]
"A Touch of The Poet" [1974 TV]
"A Moon For The Misbegotten" [1975 TV]
"Beyond The Horizon" [1975 TV]
"Anna Christie" episode of "Estudio 1" [1976 TV]
"Liefde onder de Olmen" aka "Desire Under The Elms" [1976 TV]
"Ah, Wilderness!" [1976 TV]
"Mourning Becomes Electra" [1978 TV mini-series]
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1982 TV]
"Hughie" [1983 TV]
"Hughie" [1984 TV]
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1987 TV]
"Strange Interlude" [1988 TV]
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" episode of "Great Performances" [1996]
Works About Eugene O'Neill
 | "Eugene O'Neill: A Critical Study" [1934] by Sophus Keith Winther Russell & Russell hardcover [1/61] out of print/used Random House hardcover [1934] out of print/used |
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"O'Neill Volume I: Son and Playwright" [1968] by Louis Scheaffer
Cooper Square Press 9x6 pb [11/2002] for $22.95 A.M.S. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/88] for $82.50 "O'Neill Volume II: Son and Artist" [1973] by Louis Scheaffer second volume won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Cooper Square Press 9x6 pb [11/2002] for $24.95 A.M.S. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/88] for $82.50 |
 | "Eugene O'Neill: A World View" [1979] Edited by Virginia Floyd Frederick Unger 9x6½ hardcover [6/79] out of print/used |
 | "Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts" episode of "American Masters" [WNET/P.B.S. TV 1983] Directed by Perry Miller Adato; won DGA Award for Best Documentary video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
"The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: A New Assessment" [1985]
by Virginia Floyd
Frederick Unger pb [6/87] out of print/used
Frederick Unger hardcover [9/85] out of print/used
 | "The Cambridge Companion To Eugene O'Neill" [1998] Edited by by Michael Manheim Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [9/98] for $29.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/98] for $80.00 |
 | "Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning & Tragedy" [1999] by Stephen A. Black Yale Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/2002] for $25.00 Yale Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/99] for $48.00 |
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"O'Neill: Life With Monte Christo" [2000] by Arthur & Barbara Gelb Applause Theater Books 8¾x5¾ pb [4/2002] for $24.95 Applause Theater Books hardcover [4/2000] for $28.20 |
 | "American Experience: Eugene O'Neill - A Documentary Film" [aired March 2006] Co-produced, co-written & directed by Ric Burns PBS Home Video color DVD [3/2006] for $21.99 |
 | "Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy" [2007] by John Patrick Diggins Univ Chicago Press 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2007] for $19.14 |
"A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck" [short opera 2011]
Music by Jeanine Tesori set to Tony Kushner's libretto of a story 'inspired by the life of Eugene O'Neill';
world premiere at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival near Cooperstown, New York July-August 2011
Family & Friends
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born in October 1888 in New York City; he died in November 1953 at age 65 in Boston, Massachusetts.
first wife Kathleen Jenkins O'Neill [] - married 1909-1912
son Eugene O'Neill, Jr. [1910–1950]
second wife writer Agnes Boulton O'Neill [1893-1968] - married in 1918, divorced in 1929
her memoir "Part of A Long Story" [1958]
son Shane O'Neill [1918-77]
daughter Oona O'Neill Chaplin [1925-91]
disowned when she married actor Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977] in 1943
 | "Oona: Living In The Shadows - A Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin" [1998] by Jane Scovell Grand Central Publng 8½x5½ pb [11/99] for $19.99 Warner Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [11/98] out of print/many used |
third wife actress Carlotta Monterey O'Neill [1888-1970] - married in 1929, widowed 1953
Residences
1929-1930s: Château du Plessis in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire in central France
Oona inherited the property in the 1950s and it is now the Chaplin Museum
early 1930s: a house called Casa Genotta in Sea Island, Georgia, USA
1937-44: Tao House in Danville, California
which is today the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
L i n k s
Eugene O'Neill entry at Wikipedia
browse books
Eugene O'Neill credits [100+ titles, 1923-2011] at Internet Movie Database
Eugene O'Neill credits [1918-2009] at Internet Broadway Database
browse Eugene O'Neill DVDs at Amazon
Eugene O'Neill Foundation at Tao House [est. 1974]
1936 Nobel Prize in Literature
Eugene O'Neill Memory Fund & Actors Scholarship Award [est. 1953] in Sweden
Eugene O'Neill eArchive
Imagi-Nation bio for Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center [est. 1964] in Waterford, CT
Eugene O'Neill Theatre [built 1925, renamed 1959] in New York City's Broadway District
here on the Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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