Word: paranoiacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jealousy (Republic) dramatizes neurosis. The neurosis belongs to a refugee writer (Nils Asther). He is somewhat paranoiac, so his wife Janet (Jane Randolph) has to support him by driving a taxi. Her husband becomes jealous of one of her fares, a Dr. Brent (John Loder), and the doctor's handsome colleague, Monica (Karen Morley). About the time Cinemactor Asther stops threatening to commit suicide or murder, he is murdered himself. Who kills him is something of a mystery, but even those who are not much mystified will find other things to interest them in the film...
...witness said: "Claude's mentality is that of the inventor, which is closely akin to a paranoiac mentality as shown by errors of judgment, exaltation of one's personality, pride and vanity and social inadaptability...
Mexico City's conservative newspaper Excelsior ran a daily polemic against the Big Three, topped off by an anonymous psychiatrist who diagnosed Rivera and Sequeiros, in all the polysyllabic gobbledygook of psychiatric lingo, as absolutely nuts. Rivera, he declared, was a paranoiac operating on a 120-150 day cycle between publicity-seeking outbursts. He labeled Sequeiros as a similarly pathological disturber of the peace, and recommended as a cure that both be removed from circulation...
...starts pumping the drummer. He is strangled. Escorted by her boss's good friend, Jack Lombard (Franchot Tone), she even locates the maker of the special hat and its elusive wearer. But nothing really becomes clear to her until Good Friend Lombard tips his paranoiac hand...
Died. John Flammang Schrank, 67, Bavarian-born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore" Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy's 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank's single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.'s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully...