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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 .
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). .
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.
She was the third and final wife of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Carlotta Monterey was born Hazel Nielsen Tharsing on December 28, 1888, in San Francisco, California to Christian Nielsen Tharsing (1848-1932), a Danish immigrant who was a fruit farmer, and Nellie Gotchett (1866-1946). [1]
Mary Ellen Quinlan; known as Ella O'Neill (August 13, 1857 – February 28, 1922) was the mother of playwright Eugene O'Neill and wife of actor James O'Neill. She was the inspiration for many of Eugene O'Neill's stories.
In 1987, she also wrote a one-woman play about O'Neill's third wife Carlotta Monterey, titled My Gene. [1] In 2000, the Gelbs' second collaboration, O'Neill: Life With Monte Cristo, was published and detailed his formative years. A third biography, By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O'Neill, focusing on four women closest to him, was started.
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31, 1944, in Santa Monica, California, [1] [2] [12] the fourth child of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, and the first child of his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, [3] whom he married in 1943. [13] Charlie Chaplin was 55 when Geraldine Chaplin was born and Oona was 19 years old.
A member of the Chaplin family, she is a granddaughter of English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin, and great-granddaughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill. [5] She was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O'Neill, Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final wife. [citation needed]