1947 · Los Angeles
by Anatole Litvak (director); Frank Partos, Millen Brand (screenwriters); Mary Jane Ward (novel); Darryl F. Zanuck (producer); Olivia de Havilland, Celeste Holm (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. First Draft Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to art director Joseph C. Wright, with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper.
Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward about a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and her long recovery at a mental institution. Filming was preceded by three months of intense research by director Anatole Litvak in an attempt to accurately portray practices used by mental institutions of the day, including hydrotherapy and electric shock treatments. The film had such an effect on (truncated)
Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward about a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and her long recovery at a mental institution. Filming was preceded by three months of intense research by director Anatole Litvak in an attempt to accurately portray practices used by mental institutions of the day, including hydrotherapy and electric shock treatments. The film had such an effect on (truncated)
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