Glenda Jackson in his next project. She gained a second Academy Award for Best Actress for Frank's "A Touch of Class" (1973). She continued to work in the theatre, and returned to the RSC to play the lead role in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler". A later film version directed by Trevor Nunn was released as "Hedda" (1975), for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar. In "The New York Times", Vincent Canby praised Jackson's performance: "This version of "Hedda Gabler" is all Miss Jackson's Hedda and, I must say, great fun to watch ... Miss Jackson's technical virtuosity is particularly suited to a
Hedda Gabler as her father's daughter than her husband's wife." Hedda, the daughter of an aristocratic and enigmatic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is George Tesman, a young, aspiring, and reliable (but not brilliant) academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. It becomes clear in the course of the play that she has never loved him but married him because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant. The reappearance of George's academic rival, Eilert Løvborg, throws their lives into