Today in History

November 07, 1956
There's No Place Like Home
Eugene O'Neill, one of America's premiere dramatists, begins what will become his final play in the summer of 1939 and completes it in 1941. The story he weaves is so painfully autobiographical that when he sends it to his publisher, it is accompanied by a letter asking that the envelope containing his script not be opened until 25 years after his death, and he did not desire that it be performed. O'Neill dies on November 27, 1953 and in 1955 his widow, Carlotta, allows the play to be published. On this day, it debuts on the New York stage. A Long Day's Journey Into Night depicts a day in the life of the dysfunctional Tyrone family, once close, their relationships are plagued by alcoholism, drug addiction and mistrust. The original production goes on to earn Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor (Fredric March as patriarch James Tyrone). The play is adapted to the silver screen in 1962 with Katharine Hepburn playing the morphine-addled family matriarch Mary Tyrone, for which she earns an Oscar nomination.
 


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