The 74 minute, overrated and stagey, black and white dramaAnna Christie(a down-to-earth version of theCinderellatale) was adapted (by influential screenwriter Frances Marion) from Eugene O""Neill""s play of the same name.Throughout many years of stage and screen performances of theCamilletale, the heroine had been played by various leading ladies on the screen, including Oda Alstrup (1907), Gertrude Shipman (1912), Sarah Bernhardt (1912), Clara Kimball Young (1915), Theda Bara (1917), Alla Nazimova (in a 1921 film with Rudolph Valentino), Norma Talmadge (1927), Yvonne Printemps (1934 in a French production), and others on the stage including Eleanora Duse (a debut performance in 1893), Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, and Eva Le Gallienne.]Mark: I always think of how when they had the newspaper strike in New York, more of those old guys died.At dinner that night, Kristen""s mother secretly put a sedative in her distraught daughter""s drink to force her to sleep.