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Auction History Result 5a335 LOT OF 54 MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA 8X10 STILLS '48 Russell, Redgrave, early Kirk Douglas! Date Sold 2/21/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 54 8x10 stills (many with snipes glued to the back, and many with stamps from photographer Alex Kahle) from Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, the 1948 Dudley Nichols post-Civil War New England romantic love triangle melodrama ("Mother and Daughter in Love with the Same Man! - Tied by chains of hate to each other. and to a proud family corroded by evil to murder, suicide - oblivion!"; "Mother and Daughter. Loving the Same Man. Hating Each Other!"; "The most sinister triangle in dramatic history!"; "The strangest, most sinister triangle in dramatic history. revealing murder, suicide and passionate evil that cursed the proudest family on the hill!"; "All the super thrills of a great stage drama - better than ever on the screen!"; based on the play by Eugene O'Neill, which is loosely based on Euripides' story of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, but updated to post-Civil War New England) starring Rosalind Russell (in her nominated for Best Actress Academy Award role), Michael Redgrave (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role), Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn, Kirk Douglas (sixth-billed!), Nancy Coleman, and Henry Hull. Note that Russell lost the Oscar to Loretta Young which many film historians consider the biggest upset in Oscar history. Condition: fair to good. All of these stills were originally in extremely nice condition. Unfortunately, all had a snipe glued to the back, and in every case it has discolored the front, to varying degrees (see our images). Otherwise, the stills are in nice condition, but this is a very significant defect. Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
       
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