Hedda (film) Hedda (film) Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler". It stars Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart and was directed by Trevor Nunn. This was the first (and so far the only) major theatrical film version of the play in English. Previous productions of the play in English with sound had all been made for television. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Glenda Jackson). The film was also screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition. In The New York Times, Vincent Canby praised Jackson's
Josephine Gabler Josephine Gabler Dr. Josephine Gabler (January 16, 1879 – June 13, 1961) was a physician best known for performing illegal abortions in Chicago, serving the entire Midwest, during the 1930s. Gabler graduated from medical school in 1905 and was licensed to practice that year; by the late 1920s, she had begun to specialize in abortion. Gabler and the other doctors at her clinic performed more than 18,000 abortions between 1932 and 1941, or approximately five a day. Patients were referred by their physicians, or sometimes heard about the clinic from friends or relatives. Information about the clinic comes from seventy