Eugene O'Neill. A Concise Biography
Description
In this introduction to Eugene O'Neill's life and work from the Famous Authors series, viewers are given a close look at O'Neill's theatrical family and mother who developed a morphine addiction. He struggled with this and his renouncement of Catholicism, a blow to his Irish parents, and escaped into reading voraciously. He went to Princeton, but was unfocused and left for a life of drinking and revelry. Finally he began writing, and eventually took a playwriting class at Harvard, later having his plays performed by the Provincetown Players and leading to his success.
Runtime
33 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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