The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 American psychological drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick. Based on Mary Jane Ward's 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film recounts the tale of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there.
Plot
Virginia Cunningham is an apparently schizophrenic patient at a mental hospital called the Juniper Hill State Hospital. She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she does not recognize her husband Robert.
Awards
Cast
- Angela Clarke
- Ann Doran
- Belle Mitchell
- Beulah Bondi
- Celeste Holm
- Celia Lovsky
- Frank Conroy
- Glenn Langan
- Helen Craig
- Howard Freeman
- Jacqueline deWit
- June Storey
- Katherine Locke
- Lee Patrick
- Leif Erickson
- Leo Genn
- Louise Lorimer
- Mark Stevens
- Mary Treen
- Minna Gombell
- Natalie Schafer
- Olivia de Havilland
- Queenie Smith
- Tamara Shayne
- Victoria Horne
- Virginia Brissac