Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1962 film

1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

 adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...

 play

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...

. It was directed by Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict...

 and produced by Ely Landau

Ely Landau

Ely Abraham Landau was an American producer and production executive best remembered for films of plays in the American Film Theatre series....

 with Joseph E. Levine

Joseph E. Levine

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 and Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. as executive producers. The screenplay

Screenplay

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 was by Eugene O'Neill, the music score by André Previn

André Previn

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 and the cinematography by Boris Kaufman

Boris Kaufman

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It was shot at Chelsea Studios

Chelsea Studios

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 in New York City

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. The exteriors were shot on City Island

City Island, Bronx

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Plot and response

The film concerns a fateful, heart-rending day in August 1912 at the seaside Connecticut

Connecticut

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 home of the Tyrone family.

One theme of the play is addiction

Substance use disorder

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 and the resulting dysfunction

Dysfunctional family

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 of the family: All three males are alcoholics and Mary is addicted to morphine

Morphine

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. They all constantly conceal, blame, resent, regret, accuse and deny in an escalating cycle of conflict with occasional desperate and half-sincere attempts at affection, encouragement and consolation.

Cast and characters

• Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
  
    - Mary Tyrone
• Ralph Richardson
  Ralph Richardson
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   - James Tyrone, Sr.
• Jason Robards, Jr.
  Jason Robards
  Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...
  
    - James Tyrone, Jr.
• Dean Stockwell
  Dean Stockwell
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    - Edmund Tyrone
• Jeanne Barr - Cathleen

Awards and nominations

• Katharine Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
  Academy Award for Best Actress
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• Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell all won the Best Actor
  Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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  /Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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   award at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
  1962 Cannes Film Festival
  -Jury:*Tetsuro Furukaki *Henry Deutschmeister *Sophie Desmarets *Jean Dutourd *Mel Ferrer *Romain Gary *Jerzy Kawalerowicz *Ernst Krüger...
  
  . The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
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