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...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland is pulled back from schizophrenia in a movingly realistic story (TIME...
...What's the Guy Got?" Nothing has surprised students of Olivia de Havil-land's case history more than her 1946 marriage to Marcus Goodrich. Hollywood knew little about him, except that he had written one Kiplingesque novel (Delilah), and had been married four times. She was 30, he 48. "I can't understand it," said one of her friends recently. "What has this guy got? If he was some young punk who just bowled her over . . . But how, how could this happen...
...legend has built up that Goodrich is a sort of Svengali; actually, he is a fine figure of a Naval Reserve officer with a quarterdeck voice and a manner to match. With him, Olivia has emphatically settled down. She has dropped all the friends of her fluttery, bachelor-girl days. When one of them (a middle-aged producer) recently tried to speak to her on the phone, he was informed that Mrs. Goodrich's former bachelor friends were no longer welcome. Said the dazed producer later: "What do I have to do to talk to her-get married...
...shooting of The Snake Pit she practiced her screams so convincingly at home that soon all Hollywood was abuzz with the story that that man Goodrich was beating his wife. To disprove it, Goodrich finally took to sitting in the patio in full view of the neighbors while Olivia went on screaming inside...
...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...