Word: litvak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Hollywood's Producer-Director Anatole Litvak and Producer Darryl Zanuck gambled on filming The Snake Pit (TIME, Dec. 20), they knew that it might never be shown in Britain-a risk that could make the difference between profit and loss. They took the long shot that the movie would get by the British censorship ban on scenes within insane asylums. Last week, the gamble began...
...most part, the adapters have admirably preserved the painful mood, the wry humor and the shock value of the book. Producer-Director Litvak has drawn from their script a picture which is, in many ways, better than the novel...
...Director. Producer-Director Litvak, a strong believer in psychoanalysis, tells his story with great simplicity and sympathy. There are times when the simplicity verges on the obvious. But his best scenes are superb. The finest, based mostly on Litvak's observations in the asylums he visited, is laid in the "disturbed" ward. There, amid the weirdly unrestrained babble, the camera makes its way from figure to figure: the girl who slinkily dances about in a pathetic imitation of an evening gown, the woman crouched praying on the floor, the girl with the Ana Pauker haircut pleading "in the name...
...Colonel Anatole Litvak's furious, emotionally pulverizing The Battle of Russia...
Married. Miriam Hopkins, 40, stage & screen (Becky Sharp) star; and Ray mond B. Brock, 32 wartime Balkan correspondent of the New York Times; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Alexandria, Va. Her third husband was Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director (Mayerling, Tovarich...