--- title: Long Day's Journey Into Night: Photos of Original Production description: The Eugene O'Neill drama is nominated for Best Revival of a Play at the 2016 Tony Awards, which will be held on June 12 canonical: https://time.com/4352425/1956-long-days-journey-into-night/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-10T12:00:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:28.586Z og:title: See Photos of the Original Production of 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' og:description: The Eugene O'Neill drama is nominated for Best Revival of a Play at the 2016 Tony Awards og:url: https://time.com/4352425/1956-long-days-journey-into-night/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbee966f25f5e8018/698895a6ab6d7724696a9e68/160531-long-days-journey-into-night-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1591 og:image:height: 895 og:image:alt: Long Day's Journey into Night 1956 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Photos of the Original Production of 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' twitter:description: The Eugene O'Neill drama is nominated for Best Revival of a Play at the 2016 Tony Awards twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbee966f25f5e8018/698895a6ab6d7724696a9e68/160531-long-days-journey-into-night-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Photos of the Original Production of _Long Day's Journey Into Night_ > Sponsored content. 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Defending his mother, Edmund (left) strikes his brother James for sneeringly calling her "Ophelia" when, half-crazed she wanders in with wedding gown. At play's somber end she sinks into a reverie about her girlhood. Caption from LIFE. Defending his mother, Edmund (left) strikes his brother James for sneeringly calling her "Ophelia" when, half-crazed she wanders in with wedding gown. At play's somber end she sinks into a reverie about her girlhood. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Jun 10, 2016 12:00 PM UTC The latest Broadway production of _Long Day’s Journey Into Night_ is [nominated](http://time.com/4316093/tony-nominations-2016-complete-list/) for Best Revival of a Play at this year’s [Tony Awards](http://time.com/3903886/ton-awards-antoinette-perry-history/), which will take place on Sunday night. (The other nominees are _Arthur Miller’s The Crucible,_ _Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge,_ _Blackbird_ and _Noises Off_.) The play, which is longer than your average show but covers just one day in 1912, has now been revived on Broadway five times. Back in March of 1956, LIFE Magazine [profiled](https://books.google.com/books?id=-1YEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs%5Fge%5Fsummary%5Fr&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false) the original production of the Eugene O’Neill masterwork, sending photographer [Carl Mydans ](http://time.com/4326758/photographer-spotlight-carl-mydans/)to Stockholm to capture the actors at work. The play would open on Broadway later that year. O’Neill had completed the play in 1940, as the magazine explained, but barred it from being produced until after he died. Even after O’Neill’s passing in late 1953, it would take another few years for the first production to be mounted in Sweden. “\[At that point\], the reason for the delay became clear,” LIFE noted. “His last tragedy is pure autobiography, laying open the painful truth of the American dramatist’s early family life.” Though the write-up wasn’t all praise for the work—_Long Day’s Journey_ was and remains, well, very long with characters who “move as plotlessly as figures in a nightmare”—the magazine found that the play was a finding cap to the career of a theatrical genius. As to whether the revival is as worthy of equal accolades, the theater world will answer that question this weekend.  Caption from LIFE. At hysterical moment in Stockholm production Edmund, the counterpart of young Eugene O'Neill, tells distracted mother his "summer cold" has just been diagnosed by doctor as tuberculosis. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. The pitiful mother, her hands crippled with rheumatism and half dazed with dope, offers whisky to the maid in order to win her companionship. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. The posturing father recites Shakespeare to his son Edmund and bemoans the fact that he ruined his career by playing too long in popular role. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A scene from the 1956 production of Long Day's Journey into Night. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A scene from the 1956 production of Long Day's Journey into Night. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. With angry fists Edmund reviles father for skimping on medical care both for himself and his mother. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A scene from the 1956 production of Long Day's Journey into Night. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. With flimsy excuses to her husband, his wife justifies her trip to drugstore where she secretly buys dope. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from first production of Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A scene from the 1956 production of Long Day's Journey into Night. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Defending his mother, Edmund (left) strikes his brother James for sneeringly calling her "Ophelia" when, half-crazed she wanders in with wedding gown. At play's somber end she sinks into a reverie about her girlhood. 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