Eugene O’Neill Net Worth is
$850,000

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Eugene O’Neill, the champion of four Pulitzer Awards for Drama as well as the 1936 Nobel Reward for Books, is widely considered the best American playwright. Nobody, not really Maxwell Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, nor Edward Albee, techniques O’Neill with regards to his artistic accomplishment or his effect on the American theatre. Wayne O’Neill, probably one of the most popular stars from the late 19th hundred years, was his dad, so you can express that Eugene O’Neill was created to a existence in the theater. His dad, who was simply created into poverty in Ireland before emigrating to america, developed his build and became a superstar in the theaters from the Midwest. He wedded Mary Ellen “Ella” Quinlan, the Irish-American girl of a rich Cleveland businessman, whose loss of life when she was an adolescent had harm her psychologically. She remained psychologically delicate throughout her lifestyle, an ailment exacerbated by an additional tragedy, the increased loss of a child. An additional strain was positioned on her when it had been discovered that Adam had resided in “concubinage” using a common-law wife who afterwards sued him for kid support and alimony, declaring he previously fathered her kid. Both had been pious and thinking Catholics. That they had three sons, including James Jr. (delivered 1878) and Edmund (1883), who passed away at age two from measles, departing Ella distraught. Their last boy, Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (his middle name a salute towards the United kingdom prime minister who was simply and only home guideline for Ireland), was created on the Barrett Resort (home of several theatrical artistes) in NEW YORK, on Oct 16, 1888. Supposedly, it had been a hard delivery, and in the nature of the days, Ella was presented with morphine on her behalf discomfort. She became an addict. Adam O’Neill made a lot of money playing The Count number of Monte Cristo, both on Broadway in multiple productions so that as a touring present. However, he experienced an artistic loss of life as a executing artiste through the pure repetition from the Monte Cristo function, which he considered repeatedly since it usually proved successful. He reportedly performed the part at least 4,000 occasions, perhaps nearly double that number. He’d supply the prototype for the type of Wayne Tyrone, the pater familias in his son’s “Lengthy Day’s Trip Into Night time”. Wayne O’Neill Sr. understood that he previously experienced artistically from his industrial intuition, and Eugene by no means forgot that. His child continued to be steadfast in his personal fidelity to his concepts of creative integrity. The daddy also was a notorious skinflint, terrified that some unforeseen calamity would throw him back to the hellish poverty of his childhood in Ireland. Both youthful Gene and his old brother Jamie attempted their hands at performing, and even though Jamie was more lucrative than Gene, he by no means developed a substantial, independent profession as a specialist thespian because of instability due to his alcoholism. Jamie relied on his dad for function, which additional fueled his taking in. Jamie was a full-blown alcoholic, exactly like his younger sibling, Gene, and he drank himself to loss of life at a comparatively early age, a destiny Gene were able to avoid, however, not from insufficient trying. The people of Jamie in “Long Day’s Trip Into Evening” and Adam Tyrone Jr. in “A Moon for the Misbegotten” had been predicated on him. As a guy, Eugene suffered from tuberculosis, which likely exacerbated his propensity for pessimism (the stuff of his life became the guts of his last masterpiece, “Long Day’s Trip Into Evening”). His pessimistic, tragic lifestyle most likely was hereditary: O’Neill’s two sons, Eugene O’Neill Jr. and Shane O’Neill, became chemical abusers as adults: Eugene Jr. was an alcoholic and Shane was a heroin addict. Both dedicated suicide. He disowned his girl Oona Chaplin, for marrying Charles Chaplin, who was simply just half a year more youthful than O’Neill himself. He previously never had very much regarding her anyhow, nor some of his kids. His existence was specialized in writing. After dealing with tuberculosis, O’Neill attended Princeton for the 1907-08 term, but was kicked out after his freshman year, allegedly to be drunk and disorderly at a reception held from the university president, future Chief executive of america Woodrow Wilson. For another eight years he led a freebooting presence, fortune-hunting for yellow metal in SOUTH USA and plying the seas as an able-bodied seaman, while seeking to beverage himself to loss of life (he even produced an effort at suicide). Ultimately he came back to NEW YORK and attempted his hands at playwriting, and with the monetary help of his dad, researched playwriting at Harvard in 1915. His dad was unimpressed from the outcomes, and passed away the same yr his son produced his big discovery on Broadway (he do live to start to see the creation of Eugene’s 1st full-length play, “Beyond the Horizon”, which opened up on Feb 2, 1920 and went to get a then-impressive 111 shows, and its own honoring using the 1920 Pulitzer Reward for Theatre that May. Wayne O’Neill Sr. passed away on August 10, 1920. His namesake, Wayne O’Neill Jr., passed away three years later on, at age 45.) Where Eugene really learned his build is at the composing of one-act melodramas that handled the lives of sailors, which were performed with the Provincetown Players, which had theaters in Provincetown in Cape Cod and from Washington Sq . in NEW YORK (John Ford produced a 1940 film out of four of his ocean plays, gathered in The Longer Voyage House (1940)). The movie theater he made was a response against the movie theater of his dad, the previous hoary melodramas that loaded them set for a nights crowd-pleasing entertainment. Eugene began being a dramatist at the same time when there is typically 70 plays getting performed on Broadway every week. The Great Light Way resembled today’s movie multiplex for the reason that potential theatergoers would peruse the many marquees around Situations Square searching for an entertainment for the night time. At that time O’Neill begun to set up himself, in pre- and post-World Battle I period, entertainment was initially and foremost generally in most people’s minds. The films and O’Neill would change that. Your competition from the even more sophisticated movies from the past due silent era, and the talkies, usurped the positioning of Broadway as well as the theatre as the leading location for American entertainment. The light takes on that were the same as tv fare became extinct. Musicals continuing to thrive, as do comedies, but crisis became much more serious and created a mental depth. O’Neill was the midwife from the phenomenon. Eugene O’Neill helped foster the maturation of American crisis, while he incorporated the methods of both Euro expressionism and realism in his function. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, taken to the American stage a tragic eyesight that influenced ratings of American playwrights that implemented. Eugene O’Neill died in the Shelton Resort in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1953. Allegedly, his last phrases were, “Blessed in a accommodation, and goddammit! Passed away in a single!” His wellness had been harm by his alcoholism and he experienced from Parkinson’s disease-like tremors of his hands that acquired made it tough, if not difficult, to write because the early 1940s. It really is thought that he experienced cerebellar cortical abiotrophy, a neurological disease where specific neurons in the cerebellum of the mind perish off, adversely influencing the total amount and coordination from the sufferer. Like a dramatist, he previously flourished on Broadway from 1920, when his 1st full-length function, “Beyond the Horizon”, debuted, earning him his 1st Pulitzer, until 1934, when his 1st and only humor, Ah, Wilderness! (debut Oct 1933) found a finish that June and his play, “Times Without End,” was staged in repertory between January and November). After 1934, he moved into a cocoon, steering clear of Broadway until after Globe Battle II, when the 1946 creation of “The Iceman Cometh” debuted. The 1st creation of “Iceman” failed, and O’Neill’s popularity suffered, however the 1956 creation of “Iceman” starring Jason Robards and directed by José Quintero was an excellent achievement, as was the posthumous creation of “Very long Day’s Trip Into Night time”, which brought O’Neill his 4th Pulitzer. Both has solidified his tale.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Eugene O'Neill
Died	November 27, 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Height	1.8 m
Profession	Playwright, Screenwriter
Education	Harvard University, Princeton University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Carlotta Monterey, Agnes Boulton, Kathleen Jenkins
Children	Oona O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill Jr., Shane O'Neill
Parents	James O'Neill, Ella O'Neill
Siblings	James O'Neill Jr., Edmund O'Neill
Awards	Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama
Nominations	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play
Movies	Beyond the Horizon, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms, Summer Holiday, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Long Voyage Home, Ah, Wilderness!, The Emperor Jones, The Constant Woman, Strange Interlude, Anna Christie, Before Breakfast