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Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 2, 1933. It differs from a typical O'Neill play in its happy ending for the central character, and depiction of a happy family in turn of the century America.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1933
Ah, Wilderness! is a 1935 American comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1933 Eugene O'Neill play of the same name. Directed by Clarence Brown, the film stars Wallace Beery and features Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, and a young Mickey Rooney.
Ah Wilderness!: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden. Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Clarence Brown
- 1936-04
Wilderness! is a feel-good coming-of-age story about young Richard Miller, whose romantic woes shape the play. When Richard is prevented from dating his neighbor Muriel, he goes on a drunken bender and attempts to woo the more worldly-wise Belle. Eventually Uncle Sid intervenes, brings the boy home, and puts everything right again. Ah, Wilderness!
Oct 3, 2020 · Ah, Wilderness! takes place during New London’s Fourth of July celebration in the year 1906. The Miller family of the play, though similar in many respects, should not be mistaken for O’Neill’s own family, which he immortalized later in his autobiographical masterpiece Long Day’s Journey into Night.
Ah, Wilderness!, comedy in four acts by Eugene O’Neill, published and first performed in 1933. Perhaps the most atypical of the author’s works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town.
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The small town in American drama. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist UP, 1968, 272-337: ‘O’Neill’s lost townsmen’ (16-21 on the play) (from ‘O’Neill’s “comedy of recollection”: a nostalgic dramatization of “the real America.”’.
