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...individual kudos, few critics could ignore Olivier for his direction, production and acting of Hamlet. The year's outstanding performances by actresses were notable for a lack of glamor: Olivia de Havilland as a wild-eyed schizophrenic in The Snake Pit, Jane Wyman as a drab, deaf-mute slavey in Johnny Belinda, Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden neurotic in Sorry, Wrong Number...
...National Board of Review bowed respectfully to Actress de Havilland, to Director Roberto Rossellini for his Paisan (which it called the best film, artistically, of the year), to Actor Walter Huston for his fine performance in Treasure of Sierra Madre, and to his son, Director John Huston, for writing the screen play of the same film...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland is pulled back from schizophrenia in a movingly realistic story (TIME...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland is pulled back from schizophrenia in a movingly realistic story (TIME...
...most of its makers, The Snake Pit has been more than a good movie. Olivia de Havilland expresses their feelings when she says: "This picture is going to do so much good. When I visited the institutions for the mentally ill, I felt a great surge of compassion for the people. We are all victims of life, you see, and these people are the ones who have been hardest pressed...