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  1. Home Before Dark is a 1958 American drama film directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. The screenplay was written by Eileen and Robert Bassing, based on the novel by Eileen Bassing.

  2. Home Before Dark: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.

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    • Drama
    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • 1959-01-14
  3. Synopsis. Director Mervyn LeRoy's psychological drama follows recovering mental patient Charlotte (Jean Simmons), who leaves the secure confines of a psychiatric ward to return to the dysfunctional environment responsible for her nervous breakdown, the home she shares with her college professor husband (Dan O'Herlihy).

  4. When Charlotte Bronn (Jean Simmons) returns home from a mental institution, having been committed after having a nervous breakdown, she must adapt to life on the outside with the...

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    • Mervyn Leroy
    • Drama
    • Jean Simmons
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  5. The best asset of Home Before Dark (1958) is its spooky and compelling narrative, adapted by screenwriters Eileen and Robert Bassing from an eponymous novel by the woman on the team. Jean Simmons plays Charlotte Bronn, a professor's wife who has been hospitalized for a year after undergoing a nervous breakdown.

    • Mervyn Leroy, John G. Kissel, Ivan Volkman
    • Jean Simmons
  6. Adapted by Robert and Eileen Bassing from Eileen's novel of the same name and nominated for a Golden Globe in three categories, Mervyn LeRoy's 1958 masterpiece Home Before Dark is a devastating yet remarkably liberating exploration of a woman's struggle to achieve mental health.

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  8. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. A pretty girl and the stunning shock that marriage brings her! A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.

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