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When Sigmund Freud saw his first movie-on a trip to New York in September 1909-he was "quietly amused" by what Biographer Ernest Jones describes as "one of the primitive films of those days with plenty of wild chasing." Odds are that he would scarcely be amused by a film now in the script stage and headed for the cameras next year, when an independent group led by Director John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt (son of Max) go to Vienna to make a movie about Sigmund Freud...
Casting Problem. The film will deal with only ten years of Freud's life, the early era of professional discovery, and center on three main characters: Freud; his teacher, Dr. Josef Breuer; and an attractive young patient called Cecilie, a part drawn from the histories of several early Freud patients but mainly from the famed Anna O., a patient of Breuer's in whose case Freud became interested. She liked to talk about her symptoms because somehow that relieved her. Anna O. described the process as "chimney sweeping"; for Freud it was the foundation of the concept...
Unfortunately, this gives Wink time for some rueful reflections. After all, he remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...
...presentation of the two plays, on August 18-20, will mark the first public performance of "Freud" in New England. Written by Ira Wallach, it is a parody of T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party." John Kasdan '60-4 and Julius Novick '60 (who preferred to describe the play as a "travesty" rather than a "parody") will direct...
Summer Drama at Harvard, recently organized as the only summer student theatrical group in the University, has started rehearsals for its bizarre double-bill, "Hopalong Freud" and "Twink...