Grace Kelly--Was She Suppose to Star in "Cobweb"?

The conflict about drapes made sense then

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Robert Mitchum, George Hamilton, and Eleanor Parker in Home from the Hill (1960)

Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, and Jean Stapleton in Bells Are Ringing (1960)

Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, and Sam Levene in The Big Street (1942)

Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay, and Patricia Neal in The Night Digger (1971)

Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith in Gentleman Jim (1942)

Lauren Bacall, Gary Cooper, and Patricia Neal in Bright Leaf (1950)

Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in Mata Hari (1931)

Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark, and Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb (1955)

People pay more attention to them when they're dead. That's what's so troublesome.

They said Van Gogh was crazy because he killed himself. He couldn't sell a painting while he was alive, and now they're worth thirty million dollars. They weren't that bad then and they're not that good now, so who's crazy?

Susan Strasberg and John Kerr in The Cobweb (1955)

Charles Boyer and Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)

Lauren Bacall and Richard Widmark in The Cobweb (1955)

Susan Strasberg and Lomax Study in The Cobweb (1955)

Richard Widmark

Lauren Bacall

Charles Boyer

John Paxton

William Gibson

At a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.

Vincente Minnelli

The Cobweb

NOT One Flew over the Cuckoo&apos;s Nest

In the 1950&apos;s, Vincente Minnelli was making some of the strongest films in Hollywood. Pictures like Some Came Running and The Bad and the Beautiful were very strong and probing studies of American life; The Cobweb deserves to be considered alongside these great films. The tranquil world of a psychiatric clinic in the Midwest countryside (somehow I can see cows in the fields even though there aren&apos;t any) is disrupted by a power struggle between two strong-willed men: Dr McIver, a young man whose first important post this is, and Dr Devanal, who has spent more than 20 years at the clinic and seems to be burnt-out. A stiff-necked spinster, Victoria Inch, whose father had created the clinic does everything she can to aggravate the principals. The clash between old settled practices and innovative new ones is the subject of the film.

People fret about the drapes--well really they&apos;re only the trigger for the clash. I have the strong feeling that by leaving Chicago to settle in this back-water, McIver has made a mountain of trouble for himself. His wife Karen (splendid performance by Gloria Grahame) is experiencing severe boredom and frustration; she&apos;s a sensual romantic woman who is being ignored by her husband, who is trying to find romance with Meg Rinehart (a cool Lauren Bacall). The romantic disappointments of the main characters make this film work.

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In the 1950's, Vincente Minnelli was making some of the strongest films in Hollywood. Pictures like Some Came Running and The Bad and the Beautiful were very strong and probing studies of American life; The Cobweb deserves to be considered alongside these great films. The tranquil world of a psychiatric clinic in the Midwest countryside (somehow I can see cows in the fields even though there aren't any) is disrupted by a power struggle between two strong-willed men: Dr McIver, a young man whose first important post this is, and Dr Devanal, who has spent more than 20 years at the clinic and seems to be burnt-out. A stiff-necked spinster, Victoria Inch, whose father had created the clinic does everything she can to aggravate the principals. The clash between old settled practices and innovative new ones is the subject of the film.

People fret about the drapes--well really they're only the trigger for the clash. I have the strong feeling that by leaving Chicago to settle in this back-water, McIver has made a mountain of trouble for himself. His wife Karen (splendid performance by Gloria Grahame) is experiencing severe boredom and frustration; she's a sensual romantic woman who is being ignored by her husband, who is trying to find romance with Meg Rinehart (a cool Lauren Bacall). The romantic disappointments of the main characters make this film work.

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