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MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA insert OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5a0919 MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA linen insert 1948 Rosalind Russell & mom love the same man, rare! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, the 1947 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 (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Michael Redgrave (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), 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! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this insert. The buyer of one of those posters had it linenbacked and has now reconsigned it to us, so this is still only one of two examples we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had some extra folds, with some stains and creases around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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