Word: dipsomaniacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost Weekend. A dipsomaniac's progress, brilliantly acted by Ray Milland...
...Lost Weekend. A dipsomaniac's progress, brilliantly acted by Ray Milland...
...Lost Weekend. A dipsomaniac's progress, brilliantly acted by Ray Milland...
When the screen rights of the Charles Jackson novel were bought by Paramount, many people seriously doubted that this novel of a dipsomaniac, the theme of whose life has been one long dissonance of wasted talent and alcohol, with overtones of homosexuality, could ever be made into a picture...
When Paramount Pictures Inc. decided to film The Lost Weekend, the horrendous novel about a dipsomaniac, it also uncorked a stream of scuttlebutt. Tongues wagged that the liquor industry was trying to stop Paramount, had tried to buy it off with $2,000,000, etc. Last week, as the movie won the plaudits of critics & public, Seagram-Distillers Corp. added...