September in Danville will be devoted to the memory of Ameroca’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill. Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller are more well known to those of us who grew up in the latter part of the last century, but O’Neill, with a prodigious output, was the only American playwright to win a Nobel Prize. Let’s take a short day’s journey into his life.
1. The most notable plays of O’Neill’s life were written while residing in a home in Danville. An easy one, by what name do we know this house?
2. A 1949 classic is set in a bar with the principal players being Hickey and Harry Hope. What is that play?
3. Greta Garbo’s first talking movie was a film version of which O’Neill play?
4. In 1940, four of O’Neill’s seagoing short plays were made into a great John Ford movie featuring John Wayne. What was the movie called?
5. O’Neill moved to Danville due to medical conditions relating to his wife. What was her name?
6. One of O’Neill’s daughters, Oona, married a famous Hollywood star. Who was he?
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