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Showing posts with label Portrayals of Mental Illness in Film. Show all posts
Monday, June 15, 2020

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Harold Russell as Homer Parrish "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)

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Monday, June 1, 2020

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Buzz Wanchek in "The Blue Dahlia" (1946)

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Director George Marshall was four weeks into shooting "The Blue Dahlia" when "the script girl pointed out that the camera...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Ronald Colman as Anthony John in "A Double Life" (1947)

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Ronald Colman already had theatrical experience before he joined the London Scottish Regionals to fight in WWI. He had been a member of t...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" (1936)

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Robert Emmet Sherwood's "The Petrified Forest" opened on Broadway January 7th, 1935 which wasn't the best ti...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949)

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Screenwriters Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts were offered the idea of adapting the Denver Mint robbery of 1922, but they were not 100% inspire...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in "Now Voyager" (1942)

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Bette Davis wasn't initially interested in the role of Charlotte Vale in the film adaptation of Olive Higgins Prouty's "Now...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Portrayals of Mental Illness in Film: George Cukor and Ingrid Bergman in "Gaslight" (1944)

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George Cukor was insistent he could have no other actress than Ingrid Bergman as the slowly driven mad Paula Anton. David Selznick was no...