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  1. 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. [4] [5] Based on Mary Jane Ward 's 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film recounts the tale of a woman who finds herself in an insane ...

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  2. The Snake Pit: Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm. A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

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  3. The Snake Pit is brought to life by an excellent performance from de Havilland and a tremendously entertaining and diverse supporting cast among Virginia's fellow patients, and the film was ...

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    • Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
    • Anatole Litvak
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  4. Jul 29, 2021 · The Snake Pit, 1948. A young woman tries to recover her sanity in a corrupt mental institution. Directed by Anatole Litvak. Starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick. A dramatic best-seller, The Snake Pit vividly depicts one woman's plunge into the nightmare world of the mentally ill and ...

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  5. While The Snake Pit was in production, Harcourt Brace published Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States, a searing indictment of state mental hospitals.Deutsch cited overcrowding and low recovery rates while pointing out that not a single state met the American Psychiatric Association's minimum recommendation to spend $5/day on each patient's treatment, food and housing.

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  8. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance, and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery as pipe-smoking Dr. Mark Kik struggles through wheels within wheels to find the root of her problem. Then a relapse plunges Virginia back into the harrowing 'Snake Pit.' —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

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