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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.
May 1, 2012 · In 1946, a former psychiatric patient by the name of Mary Jane Ward wrote a book called The Snake Pit, dealing with the living conditions inside mental institutions and the cruel and often sadistic ways in which patients were treated.
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.
The Snake Pit was released in late 1948 to a chorus of praise from film critics delighted that Hollywood had chosen to treat seriously the plight of the insane in American state mental institutions.
Mar 21, 2018 · In Anatole Litvak ‘s 1948 film The Snake Pit, the meaning behind the title is delivered late in the film by Olivia de Havilland ‘s Virginia Stuart Cunningham. Virginia is a mental patient at...
Sep 29, 2021 · Library of America’s new edition of The Snake Pit includes an afterword by Larry Lockridge, Professor Emeritus of English at New York University and the author of several nonfiction books (including a prize-winning biography of his father, the novelist Ross Lockridge, Jr.) as well as a series of novels, The Enigma Quartet.
In director Anatole Litvak's psychological drama about the horrors of mental institutions: the scenes of the "snake-pit" nature of the mental institution (Juniper Hill State Hospital) and the shadowy images of inmate torture.
