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The Snake Pit, the Glossary

The Snake Pit is a 1948 American psychological drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick.^[1]

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Films directed by Anatole Litvak

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.

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Academy Award for Best Sound

The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Albert Deutsch

Albert Deutsch (1905–1961) was an American journalist and social historian.

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Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.

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Anatole Litvak

Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak (Анатолий Михайлович Литвак; 10 May 1902 – 15 December 1974), better known as Anatole Litvak, was a Ukrainian-born American filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in various countries and languages.

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Arthur Laurents

Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter.

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Auditory hallucination

An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus.

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Autobiographical novel

An autobiographical novel, also known as a autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements.

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Bennett Cerf

Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House.

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Betsy Blair

Betsy Blair (born Elizabeth Winifred Boger; December 11, 1923March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.

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Beulah Bondi

Beulah Bondi (born Beulah Bondy; May 3, 1888 – January 11, 1981)According to the State of California.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Black-and-white

Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Camarillo State Mental Hospital

Camarillo State Mental Hospital, also known as Camarillo State Hospital, was a public psychiatric hospital for patients with both developmental disabilities and mental illness in Camarillo, California.

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Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress.

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Celia Lovsky

Celia Lovsky (born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky, February 21, 1897 – October 12, 1979) was an Austrian-American actress.

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Censorship in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, censorship has been applied to various forms of expression such as the media, cinema, entertainment venues, literature, theatre and criticism of the monarchy.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy political thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. It was the first explicitly anti-Nazi film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, being released in May 1939, four months before the beginning of World War II and two and a half years before the United States' entry into the war. The Snake Pit and Confessions of a Nazi Spy are films directed by Anatole Litvak.

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Crown Film Unit

The Crown Film Unit was an organisation within the British Government's Ministry of Information during the Second World War; until 1940, it was the GPO Film Unit.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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Dorothy Spencer

Dorothy Spencer (February 3, 1909 – May 23, 2002), known as Dot Spencer, was an American film editor with 75 feature film credits from a career that spanned more than 50 years.

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Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.

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Eula Morgan

Eula Moulder Morgan was an American opera singer and actress in films and theater from the 1930s through the 1950s.

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Florabel Muir

Florabel Muir (May 6, 1889 – April 27, 1970) was an American reporter, newspaper columnist and author.

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Frank Conroy (actor)

Frank Parish Conroy (14 October 1890 – 24 February 1964) was a British film and stage actor who appeared in many films, notably Grand Hotel (1932), The Little Minister (1934) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).

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Frank Partos

Frank Partos (born Ferenc Pártos; July 2, 1901 – December 23, 1956) was a Hungarian-American screenwriter and an early executive committee member of the Screen Actors Guild, which he helped found.

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Gene Tierney

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress.

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Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same title. The Snake Pit and Gentleman's Agreement are films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and films scored by Alfred Newman.

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Glenn Langan

Glenn Langan (July 8, 1917 – January 26, 1991) was an American character actor on stage and films.

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Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews

Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews is the 15-volume reprint of the complete run of the weekly magazine Harrison's Reports from its founding in 1919 to its demise in 1962.

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Helen Craig (actress)

Helen Craig (May 13, 1912 – July 20, 1986) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her role on Broadway as the main character, Belinda, in Johnny Belinda.

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Howard Freeman

Howard Freeman (December 9, 1899 – December 11, 1967) was an American actor of the early 20th century, and film and television actor of the 1940s through the 1960s.

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Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy and also called water cure, is a branch of alternative medicine (particularly naturopathy), occupational therapy, and physiotherapy, that involves the use of water for pain relief and treatment.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Katherine Locke

Katherine Locke (June 24, 1910 – September 12, 1995) was a Broadway actress in the late 1930s.

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Lee Patrick (actress)

Lee Patrick (November 22, 1901 – November 21, 1982) was an American actress whose career began in 1922 on the New York stage with her role in The Bunch and Judy which headlined Adele Astaire and featured Adele's brother Fred Astaire.

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Leif Erickson (actor)

Leif Erickson (born William Wycliffe Anderson; October 27, 1911 – January 29, 1986) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Leo Genn

Leopold John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister.

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Leo Tover

Leo Tover, A.S.C. (December 6, 1902 – December 30, 1964) was an American cinematographer, twice nominated for Academy Awards for his work on The Heiress (1949) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941).

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Leonard Maltin

Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author.

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List of films about mental disorders

This is a non-exhaustive list of films which have portrayed mental disorders.

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Lora Lee Michel

Lora Lee Michel (born Virginia Joy Willeford, September 13, 1940) is an American former child actress.

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Louella Parsons

Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter.

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Lunatic asylum

The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).

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Mark Stevens (actor)

Mark Stevens (born Richard William Stevens; December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994) was an American actor who appeared in films and on television.

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Mary Jane Ward

Mary Jane Ward (August 27, 1905 in Fairmount, Indiana—February 17, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical book The Snake Pit was made into an Oscar-winning film.

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Mary Lasker

Mary Woodard Lasker (November 30, 1900February 21, 1994) was an American health activist and philanthropist.

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Millen Brand

Millen Brand (January 19, 1906 – March 19, 1980) was an American writer and poet.

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Minna Gombell

Minna Marie Gombell (née Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress.

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Narcosynthesis

Narcosynthesis is a technique of treating post-traumatic stress disorder popularized by psychiatrists in the post-World War II era.

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Natalie Schafer

Natalie Schafer (November 5, 1900 – April 10, 1991) was an American actress, best known today for her role as Lovey Howell on the sitcom Gilligan's Island (1964–1967).

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National Institute of Mental Health

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress.

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Out of True (film)

Out of True is a 1951 British drama-documentary film, directed by Philip Leacock and starring Jane Hylton and Muriel Pavlow.

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People's World

People's World, official successor to the Daily Worker, is a Marxist-Leninist and American leftist national daily online news publication.

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Psychological drama

Psychological drama, or psychodrama, is a subgenre of drama and psychological fiction literatures, generally focuses upon the emotional, mental, and psychological development of the protagonists and other characters within the narrative, which is highlighted in a dramatic work.

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Psychosis

Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Robert Bassler

Robert Bassler (September 26, 1903 – November 8, 1975) was an American film and television producer.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Ruth Donnelly

Ruth Donnelly (May 17, 1896 – November 17, 1982) was an American film and stage actress.

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Straitjacket

A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with long sleeves that surpass the tips of the wearer's fingers.

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The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. The Snake Pit and The Grapes of Wrath (film) are films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and films scored by Alfred Newman.

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Thomas T. Moulton

Thomas T. Moulton (January 1, 1896 – March 29, 1967) was an American sound engineer.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Variety Film Reviews

Variety Film Reviews is the 24-volume hardcover reprint of feature film reviews by the weekly entertainment tabloid-size magazine Variety from 1907 to 1996.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snake_Pit

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Films directed by Anatole Litvak

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