Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Harold Russell as Homer Parrish "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) B Condon 12:00 AM 0 Enable Ginger Cannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browser Disable in this text field Edit Edit in Ginger... Read More
Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Buzz Wanchek in "The Blue Dahlia" (1946) B Condon 12:39 AM 0 Director George Marshall was four weeks into shooting "The Blue Dahlia" when "the script girl pointed out that the camera... Read More
Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Ronald Colman as Anthony John in "A Double Life" (1947) B Condon 12:11 AM 0 Ronald Colman already had theatrical experience before he joined the London Scottish Regionals to fight in WWI. He had been a member of t... Read More
Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" (1936) B Condon 4:12 PM 0 Robert Emmet Sherwood's "The Petrified Forest" opened on Broadway January 7th, 1935 which wasn't the best ti... Read More
Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949) B Condon 12:36 AM 0 Screenwriters Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts were offered the idea of adapting the Denver Mint robbery of 1922, but they were not 100% inspire... Read More
Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in "Now Voyager" (1942) B Condon 12:00 AM 0 Bette Davis wasn't initially interested in the role of Charlotte Vale in the film adaptation of Olive Higgins Prouty's "Now... Read More
Portrayals of Mental Illness in Film: George Cukor and Ingrid Bergman in "Gaslight" (1944) B Condon 12:00 AM 0 George Cukor was insistent he could have no other actress than Ingrid Bergman as the slowly driven mad Paula Anton. David Selznick was no... Read More
