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Showing posts with label Portrayals of Trauma in Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portrayals of Trauma in Film. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2020

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Fredric March as Sgt. Al Stephenson in "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)

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Fredric March had worked as a draftsman in a bank in his hometown of Racine, Wisconsin when his father couldn't afford to put his mu...
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, August 6, 2019

Portrayals of Mental Illness/Trauma in Film: Ronald Colman in "Random Harvest" (1942)

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Ronald Colman was no stranger to playing soldiers or ex-soldiers in his long 40 year career long before he ever became an actor. From ...
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...