A seemingly normal married woman behaves so erratically that her husband asks that she get professional help, whereupon she is confined to a state hospital; she is well-treated by her kindly doctor, but abused by patients and matrons alike. A Best Picture nominee., “A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution.” That’s the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit — and like most such encapsulations, it only scratches the film’s surface. Olivia de Havilland stars as an outwardly normal young woman, married to loyal, kindly Mark Stevens. As de Havilland’s behavior becomes more and more erratic, however, Stevens comes to the sad conclusion that she needs professional help. She is sent to an overcrowded state hospital for treatment — a curious set-up, in that, while de Havilland is treated with compassion by soft-spoken psychiatrist Leo Genn, she is sorely abused by resentful matrons and profoundly disturbed patients. Throughout the film, she is threatened with being clapped into “the snake pit” — an open room where the most severe cases are permitted to roam about and jabber incoherently — if she doesn’t realign her thinking. In retrospect, it seems that de Havilland’s biggest “crime” is that she wants to do her own thinking, and that she isn’t satisfied with merely being a loving wife. While this subtext may not have been intentional, it’s worth noting that de Havilland escapes permanent confinement only when she agrees to march to everyone else’s beat. Amazingly, Olivia de Havilland didn’t win an Academy Award for her harrowing performance in The Snake Pit (the only Oscar won by the film was for sound recording). While some of the psychological verbiage in this adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s autobiographical novel seems antiquated and overly simplistic today, The Snake Pit was rightly hosannahed as a breakthrough film in 1948., One of the first films to sympathetically and realistically look at mental illness with Olivia de Havilland as a young woman who becomes mentally ill and is sent to a horrifying institution., Seminal Hollywood drama starring Oscar-nominee Olivia De Havilland as a young writer who becomes mentally ill and is committed to a state hospital for treatment.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Snake Pit ” ?
A: The main cast includes Olivia de Havilland,Mark Stevens,Leo Genn,Celeste Holm,Glenn Langan,Helen Craig,Leif Erickson,Beulah Bondi,Lee Patrick,Isabel Jewell,Victoria Horne,Tamara Shayne,Grace Poggi,Howard Freeman,Natalie Schafer,Ruth Donnelly,Katherine Locke,Frank Conroy,Minna Gombell,June Storey,Ann Doran,Damian O’Flynn,Lora Lee Michel,Esther Somers,Jacqueline de Wit,Betsy Blair,Lela Bliss,Virginia Brissac,Queenie Smith,Mae Marsh,Ashley Cowan,Sally Shepherd,Geraldine Garrick,Therese Lyon,Sylvia Andrew,Jeri Jordan,Blossom Rock,Ellen Lowe,Minerva Urecal,Barbara Pepper,Jan Clayton,Helen Servis,Celia Lovsky,Lester Sharpe,Mary Treen,Victoria Albright,Marion Marshall,Dorothy Neumann,Grayce Hampton,Syd Saylor,Ben Nye,Alfred Newman,Frank Partos,Leo Tover,Millen Brand,Dorothy Spencer,Lyle Wheeler,Joseph C. Wright,Thomas K. Little,Mary Jane Ward,Bonnie Cashin.
Q: When Did the “The Snake Pit” Released?
A: The Movie “The Snake Pit” originally aired on 1948-11-04 and released in the year of 1948.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Snake Pit” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Snake Pit” ?
A: “The Snake Pit” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
