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Post by topbilled on Mar 26, 2024 2:29:25 GMT
Signs that your marriage may be in trouble
Your husband no longer talks to you the way he used to talk to you.
Your husband starts bringing hot cocoa to your room, and you sleep longer than you've ever slept in your life.
Your husband has become friendly with a girl who works in a photography studio.
You meet a man on an airplane who tells better jokes than your husband does.
You start having visions of a man in horn-rimmed glasses.
Your husband puts a gun in your hand while you are sleepwalking and expects you to commit murder so he can gain control of your money.
Yeah, that's a big one.
Join us on Sunday for SLEEP MY LOVE (1948).
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Post by topbilled on Mar 27, 2024 3:23:12 GMT
I found this copy of SLEEP MY LOVE on YouTube:
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 27, 2024 3:42:20 GMT
Signs that your marriage may be in trouble
Your husband has become friendly with a girl who works in a photography studio.
I'm sure his wife just doesn't understand him.Oh Dear. So wrong to laugh but those were great snips TB.
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 27, 2024 8:49:34 GMT
What a great introduction of a movie - well done, Topbilled. I've seen the movie and I'm now even more excited to see it again.
Until the movie, I had never seen the friendly girl who works in the photography studio before. She is played by the actress Hazel Brooks and she's quite a stunner:
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Post by topbilled on Mar 27, 2024 15:02:53 GMT
I have to admit I knew very little about Hazel Brooks. Checking her filmography, it seems she had a bunch of uncredited parts while under contract to MGM. She's very memorable in SLEEP MY LOVE and should have had a bigger career. She married Cedric Gibbons, so I guess she didn't have the need to work so much. But yeah, what a beauty!
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Post by topbilled on Mar 27, 2024 21:09:10 GMT
A few more shots of Hazel Brooks from SLEEP MY LOVE...
This is how she makes her entrance in the film:
A roadhouse scene in which she's wined and dined by Ameche:
And a shot of her with a new emerald bracelet. Not bad for a night's work!
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 27, 2024 21:29:28 GMT
And look, we have a video of Fading Fast when Hazel Brooks made that entrance:
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Post by topbilled on Mar 28, 2024 6:04:56 GMT
United Artists printed this article in a publicity handbook:
Controversy Rages Over Film’s Hypnosis Theme
New York, N.Y.: Hypnotism and hypnotists as shown by Hollywood may mesmerize the vast movie going public, but not the distinguished and respected medical practitioners of the art, it was made clear recently at a private screening of a new motion picture production, SLEEP MY LOVE, which deals with the subject.
“The portrayal on the screen of hypnotism as a sinister and mysterious force has done more to destroy public appreciation of its scientific values than anything else in this country,” declared Dr. Henry A. Hart, a well-known psychiatrist.
Dr. Hart’s charge touched off a spirited discussion in the audience. Dr. Hart pointed to the situation in Europe where hypnotism is not used in vaudeville routines and, as a result, is held in more esteem as a scientific aid by the public. Another psychiatrist echoed Hart’s views, declaring that the exhibition of hypnotism in SLEEP MY LOVE would tend “to increase public anxiety.”
Pressing his attack, Dr. Hart objected also to a factor in the plot motivation of the film which has the heroine, played by Claudette Colbert, brought to the verge of murder while under hypnotic influence. Dr. Hart declared that never to his knowledge has a hypnotized person been induced to commit a crime. This view was challenged by Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of The New York Times, and Franz Polgar, professional hypnotist, both of whom cited wartime experiments with GI’s.
The scientific validity of the hypnotic sequences in the movie, were upheld by Dr. Emil A. Gutheil, Director of Education of the Institute for Research in Psychotherapy, who said; “The use of hypnosis in conjunction with drugs (narcohypnosis) is well-known to the modern psychiatrist; this part of the drama must be considered most credible.”
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Post by topbilled on Mar 28, 2024 7:07:33 GMT
SLEEP MY LOVE was serialized in Collier's from late July through late August 1946.
Leonard Ross was a pseudonym of Leo Rosten. Rosten sold the rights of the story to UA in November 1946 and wrote the first draft of the screenplay.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 28, 2024 20:39:29 GMT
United Artists printed this article in a publicity handbook:
Controversy Rages Over Film’s Hypnosis Theme
“The portrayal on the screen of hypnotism as a sinister and mysterious force has done more to destroy public appreciation of its scientific values than anything else in this country,” declared Dr. Henry A. Hart, a well-known psychiatrist. I wonder what Dr. Hart thought of non-sinister portrayals? I know my appreciation went way up after this demonstration.
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Post by topbilled on Mar 29, 2024 6:11:10 GMT
Last night I watched NIGHTMARE (1956), a film in which Kevin McCarthy commits murder after being hypnotized to do so against his will. It's a remake of FEAR IN THE NIGHT from 1946. So before SLEEP MY LOVE, there already were films about the sinister aspects of hypnosis.
In terms of the publicity materials, it's interesting that the producers of SLEEP MY LOVE were encouraging shrinks to watch the movie and weigh in on it, knowing that in some cases, those individuals would not give full endorsements.
Colbert is not playing a G.I. who underwent experiments, but her character is still being experimented upon by a shady husband.
What we have is an intriguing postwar horror melodrama....SLEEP MY LOVE goes down a very dark path. To be honest, I think Douglas Sirk is better at this kind of material than Alfred Hitchcock with SUSPICION or NOTORIOUS.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Mar 29, 2024 11:18:31 GMT
I think we're still waiting for the "scientific values" of hypnosis to come forward. I tried it a few times and couldn't even go deep enough to think my cigarettes tasted bad, much less kill someone.
We certainly are learning a lot about husbands and bedtime drinks. Milk means arsenic, hot chocolate is a sleep walking serum. My husband brought me a milkshake last night. I think he might be trying to fatten me up for the kill.
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 29, 2024 11:43:55 GMT
I think we're still waiting for the "scientific values" of hypnosis to come forward. I tried it a few times and couldn't even go deep enough to think my cigarettes tasted bad, much less kill someone.
We certainly are learning a lot about husbands and bedtime drinks. Milk means arsenic, hot chocolate is a sleep walking serum. My husband brought me a milkshake last night. I think he might be trying to fatten me up for the kill. If he isn't though, that's a hell of a good man. I'd like someone to bring me a milkshake at night.
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 29, 2024 13:08:26 GMT
Me: "You know what would be great right now?"
Fawn: "What?"
Me: "A milkshake."
Fawn: [excitedly] "That would be."
Me: "Hmhmhmhmhm."
Fawn: "Hmhmhmhmh."
- they each, with forced nonchalance, look around -
Me:"Bed?"
Fawn: [dejectedly] "Bed."
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Post by topbilled on Mar 29, 2024 14:42:45 GMT
Not to muddy the waters too much...but I wondered what's the difference between hypnosis and brainwashing. (I was thinking specifically of SLEEP MY LOVE versus THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.)
According to a Google search I just did, hypnosis is a medical form of therapy done with a patient's consent (like Andrea's example about cigarettes); while brainwashing is done without the person's consent.
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which there may be heightened suggestibility.
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