FILM 1345: POSSESSED
TRIVIA: Star Joan Crawford and director
Curtis Bernhardt spent
time in real psychiatric wards in Santa Monica, Santa Barbara and Pasadena,
observing mental patients as research for the film. On one of these visits,
Crawford and Bernhardt witnessed, without asking permission, a woman undergoing
electro convulsive shock therapy. Warner Bros. was later forced to pay substantial
damages to the woman, who claimed their presence was an invasion of privacy.
The second film with this title Joan Crawford appeared in.
The first was the 1931 film Possessed
(1931), co-starring a young Clark Gable.
This makes Crawford the only star to appear in two completely different films
with identical titles.
Star Joan Crawford reportedly said,
"I will not go on with this picture unless the Epstein Boys rewrite my
part." Julius J. and Philip Epstein were then on suspension from the
studio. I order to get them to accede to Crawford's demands, Jack Warner had to
take them off of suspension... with back pay.
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