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Summer Holiday (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Our Home Town From the top, Walter Huston as dad Nat Miller introduces the gimmick, original tunes by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane serving as exposition in the musical adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness, bringing in Butch Jenkins, Michael Kirby, Marilyn Maxwell, Selena Royle, Frank Morgan and Agnes Moorehead, in Summer Holiday, 1948, produced by Arthur Freed for MGM.
Summer Holiday (1948) -- (Movie Clip) The Stanley Steamer Graduation from Danville, CT High School, June 1906, Mickey Rooney as ebullient Richard hears first from Gloria De Haven as girlfriend Muriel, then joins Agnes Moorehed (“Cousin Lily”) and his dad (Walter Huston) as they board the genuine car, with another original song by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane, in the musical adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!, from MGM’s Arthur Freed unit, Summer Holiday, 1948.
Long Voyage Home, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Hates And Desires Dialogue-free opening by director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols, from a film praised by the original author Eugene O'Neill, depicting Ward Bond, John Wayne, Joseph Sawyer, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald et al, in The Long Voyage Home, 1940.
Long Voyage Home, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Land's Through With Me West-Indian island girls on board to party, Yank (Ward Bond) indulging, as sage Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald) and sullen Smitty (Ian Hunter) muse together, early in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home, 1940, adapted from four Eugene O'Neill plays.
Long Voyage Home, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) This Ain't No Life Sailor Yank (Ward Bond) gravely injured in a storm at sea, Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), Ole (John Wayne), Davis (Joseph Sawyer) and Axel (John Qualen) offering what support they can, in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home, 1940, adapted from Eugene O'Neill.
Reds (1981) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Share You Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) in an early encounter with Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson), friend of her lover and writer of a play in which she's performing, from director and star Warren Beatty's Reds, 1981.
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Foghorns Couldn't Wake You Austere enough, the opening to Sidney Lumet’s nearly unaltered treatment of Eugene O’Neill’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize-winner, introducing the Tyrones of New London, Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell, in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962.
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) -- (Movie Clip) What A Big Baby Older brother Jamie (Jason Robards Jr.) tears into Edmund (Dean Stockwell, whose character represents the original playwright Eugene O’Neill) for not recognizing the tricks employed by their morphine addict mother (Katharine Hepburn), who soon joins them, in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962.
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Not Your Jailer References to her morphine addiction still oblique, Katharine Hepburn as Mary has a tantrum after a family meal, Ralph Richardson as James takes a call from her supplier-doctor, sons (Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) holding on, in Sidney Lumet’s version of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962.
Ah, Wilderness -- (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Look What They Did To Lincoln New England, 1906, a school dance, Eric Linden as "George," seen as something of a surrogate for the playwright, Cecilia Parker his tentative partner "Muriel," in MGM's hit 1935 version of Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness, 1935.
Ah, Wilderness -- (1935) -- (Movie Clip) My Life Is Bitter With Thy Love New England editor Nat (Lionel Barrymore) hears neighbor McComber (Charley Grapewin) complain about poetry shared by his son, which is genuine Swinburne, he later reads with brother Sid (Wallace Beery), in Ah, Wilderness, 1935, from the Eugene O'Neill play.
Ah, Wilderness -- (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Kiss Me Sister! Richard (Eric Linden) arrives home to the Miller clan, Lionel Barrymore and Spring Byington the parents, Bonita Granville his sister, Wallace Beery colorful uncle Sid, Frank Albertson the brother and Aline MacMahon aunt Lily, early in MGM's 1935 version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness.

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