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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia Johnson (who got the prize last year from Manhattan critics) for This Happy Breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tops for 1947 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...block for male impersonators in the opera, went well at her hands. Naney Trickey was excellent in the part of Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner looked evil but sang with only moderate control and acted rather clumsily. The one big disappointment of the day was Joseph Laderoute, who was weak and unimpressive as Idomeneo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Mourning Becomes Electra. A cinemagnification of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest; with Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Mourning Becomes Electra. A cinemagnification of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest; with Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Nonetheless, O'Neill is one of the finest theatrical craftsmen of his day, and Electra has a gnashing vitality. The cinemadaption is, as Playwright O'Neill himself concedes, "magnificent." The rough edges of the incestuous theme have been ground smooth in the dialogue without losing a jot of theatrical shock. The Grecian mood, though it echoes rather tinnily through the New England characters, reverberates grandly on the super-loud sound track, in what O'Neill calls the "sumptuous simplicity" of the Mannon mansion, in the classic drape of the costumes, in the still, pure lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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