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Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill.The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932, starring Lee Baker (Ezra), Earle Larimore (Orin), Alice Brady (Lavinia) and Alla Nazimova (Christine).
Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play Mourning Becomes Electra, based in turn on the Oresteia.The film stars Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and Kirk Douglas.
In Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra is renamed Christine Mannon. In Ferdinando Baldi's The Forgotten Pistolero, a Spaghetti Western adaptation of the Oresteia, Clytemnestra is named Anna Carrasco and is portrayed by Luciana Paluzzi.
His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, [3] [20] a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been. [citation needed]
Electra, a lost play by Quintus Tullius Cicero of which nothing is known but the name and that it was "a tragedy in the Greek style" Electra (1901) a play by Benito Pérez Galdós; Elektra, a 1903 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on the Sophocles play; Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931 play by Eugene O'Neill, based on Aeschylus
[7] [8] [9] When the film was released on DVD in 2004, the scene was re-shot with Ian McDiarmid, who played Emperor Palpatine in all of the other films in which the character appears. In March 1986, Eaton suffered a stroke. On April 21, 1986, she died at her childhood home in Palo Alto surrounded by two nieces and a nephew by marriage.
Blum won an Obie Award in 1989 for his role in “Gus and Al” and could also be seen in stage productions “The Waverly Gallery,” “Mourning Becomes Electra,” “It’s Only a Play” and ...
Marvin David Levy (August 2, 1932 – February 9, 2015) was an American composer, best known for his opera Mourning Becomes Electra. Mourning Becomes Electra was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967.