Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, Sept. 5, 1933. Photographic print; gelatin silver. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection.
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2005 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Ric BurnsAffiliationFilmmaker
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Event Description
Ric Burns (The Civil War; New York: A Documentary Film) will present excerpts of his newest work, Eugene O’Neill, a two-hour special that will air on PBS’s American Experience next spring. The film – a collaboration between Burns and O’Neill biographers Arthur and Barbara Gelb – makes use of interviews and readings from a number of the world’s foremost O’Neill scholars, historians, writers, critics and theatre artists. (O’Neill spent a year at Princeton, 1906-7.)
Sponsors
- Program in American Studies
- Program in Theater and Dance
- Program in Visual Arts
- Department of English