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Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932, starring Lee Baker (Ezra), Earle Larimore (Orin), Alice Brady (Lavinia) and Alla Nazimova (Christine).
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1931
Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play Mourning Becomes Electra, based in turn on the Oresteia. The film stars Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and Kirk Douglas.
A tragic drama by Eugene O'Neill that explores the themes of incest, revenge, and fate. The play follows three generations of the Mannon family, who are cursed by their obsessive love and hatred for each other.
A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play based on the Oresteia, set in post-Civil War New England. It follows the tragic fate of a family torn by love, jealousy and revenge, with Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave and Raymond Massey in the lead roles.
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- Drama
- Dudley Nichols
- 1947-11-19
Mourning Becomes Electra, trilogy of plays by Eugene O’Neill, produced and published in 1931. The trilogy, consisting of Homecoming (four acts), The Hunted (five acts), and The Haunted (four acts), was modeled on the Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus and represents O’Neill’s most complete use of Greek.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 3, 2017 · May 3, 2017. Even with the stamp of genius on it, age has made Eugene O’Neill’s “Mourning Becomes Electra” one of those classics that people avoid — a marathon-length trilogy stuffed with...
Mourning Becomes Electra. In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders (Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave) exact vengeance after the murder of their father (Raymond Massey...
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