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Film Noir | Los Angeles, California
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Star Joan Crawford reportedly said, "I will not go on with this picture unless the Epstein Boys rewrite my part." Twin brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein were then on suspension from the studio. In order to get them to accede to Crawford's demands, executive producer Jack L. Warner had to take them off suspension and give them back pay for their uncredited rewrite Crawford wanted.
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 and going over the script with doctors for the sake of authenticity. On one of those visits, Crawford and Bernhardt witnessed, without asking permission, a woman undergoing electroconvulsive therapy. Warner Bros. was later forced to pay substantial damages to the woman, who claimed their presence was an invasion of privacy. She also claimed that Crawford based the role on her, which must have been quite a compliment for the actress.
Silvia Richards wrote the first draft of the screenplay for the film. However, in order to try and repeat the success of Mildred Pierce (1945), producer Jerry Wald hired Ranald MacDougall to do a complete rewrite.
Based on the story "One Man's Secret" by Rita Weiman that was first published in the March 1943 edition of Hearst's International Cosmopolitan magazine.
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.
"Dr. Harvey Williard: How many does this make? Interne: Twenty today: 1 manic, 3 seniles, 6 alcoholics, and 10 schizos. Dr. Harvey Williard: Going up all the time. This civilization of ours is a worse disease than heart trouble or tuberculosis, and we can't escape it."
"Louise Howell: "I love you" is such an inadequate way of saying I love you. It doesn't quite describe how much it hurts sometimes."
