The play and the opera Mourning Becomes Electra

    Do you mean that the original play of "Mourning Becomes Electra" is 9 hours
long?  If so, then how did actors get through the entire performances on the
stage?    I'm surprised, incidentally, to hear that the 1940's film version
(Russell, Redgrave, Paxinou) of it is so bad.  By the way, one thing that I've
noticed is that Turner Classic Movies seems to air this film once or twice a
year.    
     That's interesting that Katina Paxinou, whom I'd merely heard of,
originally trained to be an opera singer.  I've yet to see her in anything.  I
think I'll check this one out.  

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Alcindoro)
>Date: 11/30/03 6:57 PM Eastern Standard Time
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>>Is this movie any good?<
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>The 1947 film version boils O'Neill's roughly 9-hour trilogy down to 3 hours,
>and as a result seems clumsy and hammy.  It features one of Rosalind
>Russell's
>worst performances (though she received her second Oscar nom for it) and the
>Greek actress Katina Paxinou (originally trained as an opera singer) is
>equally
>unconvincing.  Avoid this version.  There is a video version of the full
>trilogy (pruned very slightly) from the late 70s with an excellent cast:
>Roberta Maxwell, Bruce Davison, Joan Hackett.  Highly recommended.