o'neill eugene play (5 Ergebnisse)

Green Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine Dustjacket. 1st Edition. Three Different Editions: A Fine Copy Of The Signed Limited First Edition Of The Book, Signed By O'neill, In A Near Fine Original Slipcase. Also Included Is The First Trade Edition, Near Fine In A Near Fine, Unfaded Dust Jacket, Not Price-Clipped. Also Included Is A Unique Copy Of The Third Printing, February 1928, The Printing Just Before The First Production Of The Play, At The Pasadena Playhouse. Prepared By Or For Claude D. Seaman [Of The Standard Lighting Company, Los Angeles], With His Name On Front Endpaper Carefully Blocked In Ink. Printed Heading, By Hand, On First Blank "World Premiere/ Of O'neill's/ "Lazarus Laughed"/ Pasadena Community Playhouse/ April 9 - 1928"; Repeated On Verso; Half Title With Line For Author's Signature [But He Was Not Present And This Line Is Thus Blank]; Verso With "World Premiere." Text Repeated, With Lines For Director, Musical Director, Director Of Movement, Art Director, Production Manager, Business Manager, And The Chairman Of The Production Committee, Each Line Signed By The Person Holding That Position; Title Page; Verso Is Copyright Page; Synopsis Page; Verso Are Lines Drawn And Extended To Each Of The "Characters" Listed On The Following Page, Each Line Signed By The Person Who Played That Part, Maurice Wells Thus Signing Twice, 14 Signatures In All; "World Premiere" Text Repeated At Foot Of Characters Page And Again On Verso; "Act One" Title Page; Verso Repeats Then "World Premiere.' Text, Followed By Lijnes For Each Of The Producing Staff / Setting, Including The Designer James Hyde, And 11 Others. With, Laid In Loosely, The Los Angeles Newspaper Review By The Spectator Of The Production Which Shortly Moved To The Hollywood Music Box [Theatre], With A Clipped Newspaper Ad For The Production Citing A Cast Of 250 And A Production Cost Of $100,000. The Play Has Since Been Produced Only Four Times, Due In Part To The Expense And Difficulty, But Also To Its Philosophical, Didactic Yet Confrontational Tone Which Has Not Set Well With General Audiences Since The Original Use Of This Dramatic Form Several Thousand Years Past. Irving Pichel [1891-1954] Played The Title Role. He Also Played The Servant, Sandor, In Dracula's Daughter, Fagin In The 1933 Film Oliver Twist, And About 57 Other Films 1930-1939, With Minor Roles In Films He Later Directed. He Directed Films 1932-1954, Including The Most Dangerous Game, She, Earthbound, Hudson's Bay, The Moon Is Down, They Won't Believe Me, The Miracle Of The Bells, Destination Moon, And Santa Fe. In 1947 Hje Was One Of The Hollywood 19 Subpoened By The House Un-America Activities Committee; He Was Not Called To Testify, But Was Blacklisted, Requiring Him To Work Outside The Us. Victor Jory [1902-1982] Was Canadian, Attended School In Pasadena, Appeared In Theatre All Over The Us And Made His Motion Picture Debut In 1930, Later Appearing In Over 150 Pictures And Dozens Of Tv Episodes. [Note That This Book Is Not Signed By O'neill. Gilmor Brown, Producer Of The Play, Was Director Of Public Speaking And Dramatics At Caltech, Later Director Of The Pasadena Playhouse, And Responsible For Making It Into One Of The Premier Small Theatres In The U.S. From The 1920'S Into The 1950'S, Routinely Featuring Prominent Starring Actoirs And Furnishing An Entree For Many Actors Who Later Became Successful In Motion Pictures And Tv. Signed by Author(s).

First Thus. First separate printing, Softcover. Octavo (19cm); stapled pictorial paper wrappers; [6],7-54pp. Very occasional pencilled marginal notes and underlining throughout, with modest shelf-wear and tanned wrappers; Very Good. O'Neill's eight-scene play was frst performed by the Provincetown Players in November of 1920. [88220].

Archive of material relating to Eugene O'Neill's 1931 play cycle and the subsequent 1947 film adaptation, including a Final script for the film and a bound carbon typescript of the condensed published version of the play. Film script belonging to director Dudley Nichols, with his name in manuscript pencil on the title page, and his annotations in pencil on several pages, amending dialogue and noting deletions. Additionally included with the archive is a 1956 Columbia University Master's degree thesis credited to a Herbert Kennedy Jr., comparing the film and play, with photographs from both. Based on the Oresteia, with the setting moved from ancient Greece to New England shortly after the American Civil War, about a Union general returning from war, only to confront deception and adultery in the women who have waited at home. O'Neill's play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 26, 1931, running for a successful 150 performances. Originally released by RKO with a three-hour run time, the screen adaptation was heavily cut after release, ultimately clocking in at 105 minutes, with the complete version currently considered lost. Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances as Lavinia and Orin Mannon, respectively. Film script: Generic blue card wrappers, with Kennedy's name and address in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated FEBRUARY 25, 1947, noted as FINAL SCRIPT, stamped copy No. 8, with credit for O'Neill. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. 202 leaves, with last page of text numbered 199. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with ten blue revision pages dated 3/12/47. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with a silver prong. Condensed play script: Black card wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present, with credit for O'Neill and writer Demetrios Vilan. 120 leaves, with last page of text numbered 3-2-10. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three silver brads. Thesis: Black card wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper crediting Kennedy. Title page present, with a credit for Kennedy. Approximately 164 leaves. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with a silver prong.

Vintage borderless photograph of actress Sophia Loren on the set of the 1958 film. With a Photoplay Library stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Bill Avery and manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play. A greedy New England farmer marries for a third time after working his first two wives to death. Trouble ensues when his new wife, a headstrong Italian woman, begins an affair with his youngest son. Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century, with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill, and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer, shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley, Jack Lemmon, Katharine and Audrey Hepburn, and Shirley MacLaine, among many others. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage linen-backed keybook reference photograph from the 1933 film, showing actor Paul Robeson. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play, following a cunning railway porter who gradually manipulates his way into control of a small Caribbean island. Actor Paul Robeson's first sound feature, a breakthrough role which secured the actor's status as one of the first African American leading actors of mainstream cinema. Set throughout the American south and in the Caribbean Islands, shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear along the top edge (image unaffected). National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 370.