Private Worlds (1955 film)
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Private Worlds | |
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Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
Produced by | Anthony Barr (associate producer) Martin Manulis Bretaigne Windust |
Written by | Phyllis Bottome (story) Mel Dinelli (adaptation) |
Starring | Peter Camlin Marguerite Chapman Claudette Colbert William Lundigan (Series Cast) |
Music by | Bernard Herrmann (Series Crew) |
Distributed by | CBS |
Release date(s) | 7 April 1955 |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
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Private Worlds is a 1955 made-for-television film directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Peter Camlin, Marguerite Chapman and Claudette Colbert for the TV Series: Climax! shown in Season 1 as Episode 21.
This is a 1955 TV version of the ahead-of-its-time 1935 film Private Worlds, with Claudette Colbert repeating her role as very caring psychiatrist facing discrimination in a hospital because she's female. The film is based on a story by novelist Phyllis Bottome who has had several of her works transferred to film, such as The Mortal Storm, filmed in 1940.
[edit] Plot
A female doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
[edit] Cast
- Peter Camlin ... Attar
- Marguerite Chapman ... Myra Saunders
- Claudette Colbert ... Dr. Jane Everest
- Marilyn Erskine ... Sally McGregor
- Lorne Greene ... Dr. Charles Saunders
- Eve March ... Carrie
- Michael Ross ... Jerry
- William Tannen ... McLean
- Glen Vernon ... Glenn
- Katherine Warren ... Matron
Series Cast
- William Lundigan ... Himself/Host