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Freud | Shunned By Your Peers
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Best Music Score Substantially Original | 1963 | Jerry
Best Writing Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1963
Best Director | 1963 | John
Best Supporting Actress | 1963 | Susan
Best Actress Drama | 1963 | Susannah
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1963
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1963 | John
Best Written American Drama | 1963
1963 | John
Best Film | 1962 | John
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the original script at the request of director John Huston, but it was unused as it was too long. It was later published in book form as "The Freud Scenario."
Montgomery Clift had so many health problems on the set of this film, that Universal-International sued him for the cost of the film's production delays. During the trial, the film opened and was such a huge hit that Clift's lawyers brought up the point that the film was doing well because of Clift's involvement. Clift won a lucrative settlement.
Robert LaGuardia, in his 1988 biography of Montgomery Clift "Monty," claimed that director John Huston, who had paternalistic feelings towards Clift after directing the alcoholic and emotionally troubled actor in The Misfits (1961), became sadistic towards him during the troubled "Freud" shoot. Basing his charges on interviews with co-star Susannah York, LaGuardia claimed that Huston kept asking Clift about the Freudian concept of "represssion," obviously alluding to Clift's repressed homosexuality. Apparently, Huston himself could not broach the idea that Monty was gay in his own mind, but subconsciously, he reacted to Monty's homosexuality quite negatively. (Marilyn Monroe had admonished Monty not to work with Huston again, finding him a sadist on the "Misfits" set. Her ex-husband Arthur Miller, on the other hand, did not fault Huston in his autobiography "Timebends," but instead, marveled about how he kept his cool during the "Misfits" shoot, which was also troubled due to Marilyn Monroe's mental illness and frequent absences from the set.) Monty's biographer thought that Huston still had paternalistic feelings towards the actor, but was subconsciously appalled at his surrogate son's homosexuality; thus, he began to torture him on the set by insisting on unnecessary retakes and that he perform his own stunts, such as climbing up a rope. Despite Monty's many problems, he always proved a trouper, and gave as much as he could.
Elements of Jerry Goldsmith's score were recycled by Ridley Scott for Alien (1979).
John Huston wanted to cast Marilyn Monroe in Freud as Cecily Koertner. Horrified at the financial failure of The Misfits (1961), 20th Century-Fox president Spyros P. Skouras refused to loan her to Huston for the film, and the role went to Susannah York.
"Narrator: Since ancient times there have been three great changes in man's idea of himself. Three major blows dealt us in our vanity. Before Copernicus, we thought we were the centre of the universe, that all the heavenly bodies revolved around our Earth. But the great astronomer shattered that conceit and we were forced to admit our planet is but one of many which swing around the sun, that there are other systems beyond our solar system in myriad worlds. Before Charles Darwin man believed he was a species unto himself separate and apart from the animal kingdom. But the great biologist made us see that our physical organism is the product of a vast evolutionary process whose laws are no different for us than for any other form of animal life. Before Sigmund Freud, man believed that what he said and did were the products of his conscious will alone. But the great psychologist demonstrate the existence of another part of our mind, which functions in darkest secrecy and can even rule our lives. This is the story of Freud's descent into a region almost as black as hell itself: Man's unconscious, and how he let in the light."
"Martha Freud: [speaking of Professor Meynert] He's dying, Sigi. Sigmund Freud: How astonished he must be. He took himself for Jehovah."
