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    By Love Possessed

    1961 · Romance · 1h 55m

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  1. By Love Possessed is a 1961 American drama film distributed by United Artists. The movie was directed by John Sturges, and written by Charles Schnee, [2] based on the novel by James Gould Cozzens . Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jason Robards Jr., George Hamilton and Susan Kohner head the cast. Hamilton called it "an Ivy League Peyton Place ...

  2. By Love Possessed: Directed by John Sturges. With Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jason Robards, George Hamilton. Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.

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    • Drama, Mystery
    • John Sturges
    • 1961-11-23
  3. By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens in the middle 1950s. It was published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company , and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal , an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years.

    • James Gould Cozzens
    • 1957
  4. After his wife, Clarissa (Barbara Bel Geddes), accuses him of being incapable of love, prominent Massachusetts lawyer Arthur Winner (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) begins a torrid affair with the alcoholic ...

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    • Lana Turner
    • John Sturges
    • Romance
  5. The same year he won an Oscar® for producing West Side Story (1961), Walter Mirisch picked up the screen rights to By Love Possessed for $250,000 and assigned the script to Charles Schnee, who had scored with the Hollywood soap opera The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Schnee cut the controversy but kept the sin.

  6. Feb 23, 2021 · By Love Possessed is a 1961 American drama film distributed by United Artists. The movie was directed by John Sturges, and written by Charles Schnee, based o...

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  8. The comparison of this novel to Peyton Place in another review is misleading. Though By Love Possessed was a bestseller, it is a literary novel and a good one. The many plot threads running through the novel include a past episode of adultery, an alleged rape, and financial irregularities at the protagonist’s law firm.

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