Anna Christie

He was a famed playwright and his autobiog- autobiographical masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night, was released in 1957 after his death.

It is the most popular of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon in 1920, Anna Christie in 1922, Strange Interlude in 1928, Ah, Wilderness in 1933, and The Iceman Cometh in 1946.

O'Neill died on November 27th, 1953 in Boston.

He was born on October 16th, 1888 in a New York City hotel room.

But O'Neill took the theatrical world by storm in 1920 with his Pulitzer Prize-winning Beyond the Horizon.

Later that year, another O'Neill masterpiece, The Emperor Jones, made its Broadway debut.

In 1922, O'Neill brought his drama Anna Christie to the Broadway stage.

It was a story of a prostitute's return home, and it won his second Pulit- Pulitzer Prize in that period.

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Anna Christie.

She was an ex-, uh, ex-alcohol- uh, ex-post- prostitute.

That was the name of that one?

Anna Christie.

Anna Christie.

It was produced up here about 10 years ago, I'm guessing.

But even through all of that, he ended up winning the Nobel Prize in 1936.

And the critics all came to see it, you know, movie stars came to see it, and amazingly so, because that same year we were nominated in Best Ensemble alongside another great play.

called Anna Christie, which was an extraordinary play by Eugene O'Neill and was nominated, of course, with two spectacular actors, the late Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson.

And they were nominated and they won that same year.

And we ran to see the play on our night off to see them because they were great British actors.