Daily Dialogue — October 23, 2017

“Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.”

— Spellbound (1945), screenplay by Ben Hecht, adaptation by Angus MacPhail, suggested by novel “The House of Dr. Edwardes” written by Frances Beeding

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Therapy, suggested by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Early versions of the script used the words “sex menace,” “frustrations,” “libido” and “tomcat” in scenes involving the character of Mary Carmichael. These were eliminated when PCA director Joseph I. Breen strongly objected.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This was one of the first Hollywood movies to deal with psychoanalysis. In fact, the Dr. Alexander Brudov character, who delivers the line above, is a thinly veiled version of Sigmund Freud.