Eugene O'Neill a documentary film

America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill was the brooding youngest son of a celebrated actor who failed to fulfill the early promise of his career and his long-tormented, drug-addicted wife. O'Neill spent a lifetime plumbing the depths of his own turbulent psyche, leaving a swath of broken lives and personal destruction in his wake, while revolutionizing the American stage during the 1920s and 30s. Through experimental and emotionally probing dramas, ground-breaking plays as The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Elektra and most particularly The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, O'Neill addressed human difficulties with deep psychological insight, as timeless meditations on loss and redemption, family and memory.

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"America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill was the brooding youngest son of a celebrated actor who failed to fulfill the early promise of his career and his long-tormented, drug-addicted wife. O'Neill spent a lifetime plumbing the depths of his own turbulent psyche, leaving a swath of broken lives and personal destruction in his wake, while revolutionizing the American stage during the 1920s and 30s. Through experimental and emotionally probing dramas, ground-breaking plays as The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Elektra and most particularly The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, O'Neill addressed human difficulties with deep psychological insight, as timeless meditations on loss and redemption, family and memory."@en
"Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. The program traces his life from his early days in New York to his last years in Boston when he suffered from tremors which kept him from his writing."@en
"Eugene O'Neill was born in 1888 to a celebrated actor of Irish background. His childhood which inspired the writing of some of his greatest plays (e.g. Long Day's Journey into Night) was one of loneliness. His mother became a morphine addict following the death of his older brother in infancy. After a suicide attempt in 1913, he became prolific and, during the 1920's and 30's, won three Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize. His private life, however, remained one of "seeking flight", until he married the actress Carlotta Monterey, who remained with him until his death. O'Neill was posthumously awarded an unprecedented fourth Pulitzer Prize. The documentary offers readings of various excerpts from his plays, as well as a fundamental analysis of American theatre and O'Neill's role in its transformation."@en
"Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity."@en
"The author of such innovative works as "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night," Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill wrote 20 long plays in fewer than 25 years. Much of his writing was influenced by his troubled childhood and relationships. This American experience production, by award-winning director Ric Burns, tells O'Neill's turbulent story from his childhood to his painful death at the age of 65."@en