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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Jr. (May 5, 1910 – September 25, 1950) was an American professor of Greek literature [1] and the only child of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and his first wife, Kathleen Jenkins.
Ella met James O'Neill at her father's house, and later married him on June 14, 1877 in Manhattan. [3] Ella was on tour with James in San Francisco when in September 1878, her first son, James, Jr., was born in the house of one of the actor's friends. [4] A second son, Edmund Burke O'Neill was born in 1883 in St. Louis.
Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was a Bermudian-born actress, the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
The O'Neill/Boulton correspondence was published in 2000 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in a volume called A Wind Is Rising. [12] For a full biographical study of Boulton, see William Davies King, "Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010). .
Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956. [5] It is widely regarded as his magnum opus and one of the great American plays of the 20th century. [6]
The former couple's older son, basketball star Shaqir O’Neal, showed his support for his dad, writing, "You know i love ya twin," in the comments of the elder O'Neal's Instagram post.
Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 play written by Eugene O'Neill. Like Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms signifies an attempt by O'Neill to adapt plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy to a rural New England setting. It was inspired by the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus.