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Directed By
Anatole Litvak
Written By
Frank Partos
screen play
Millen Brand
screen play
Mary Jane Ward
based on the novel by
Arthur Laurents
contributor to screenplay construction
Cast
Olivia de Havilland
Virginia Stuart Cunningham
Mark Stevens
Robert Cunningham
Leo Genn
Dr. Mark Kik
Celeste Holm
Grace
Glenn Langan
Dr. Terry
Helen Craig
Nurse Davis
Leif Erickson
Gordon
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Greer
Lee Patrick
Asylum Inmate
Howard Freeman
Dr. Curtis
Natalie Schafer
Mrs. Stuart
Ruth Donnelly
Ruth
Katherine Locke
Margaret
Frank Conroy
Dr. Jonathan Gifford
Minna Gombell
Miss Hart
June Storey
Miss Bixby
Lora Lee Michel
Virginia - Age 6
Damian O'Flynn
Mr. Stuart
Ann Doran
Valerie
Esther Somers
Nurse Vance
Jacqueline deWit
Celia Sommerville
Betsy Blair
Hester
Lela Bliss
Miss Greene
Queenie Smith
Lola
Virginia Brissac
Miss Seiffert
Grayce Hampton
Inmate Countess
Dorothy Neumann
Champion - Miss Neumann
Jan Clayton
Singing Inmate
Vicky Albright
Virginia - Age 2
Jean Andren
Nurse
Sylvia Andrew
Patient
Phil Arnold
Bald Man
Polly Bailey
Patient
Bobby Barber
Lola's Husband
Vangie Beilby
Patient
George Beranger
Bit Role
Marie Blake
Patient Awaiting Staff
Margaret Brayton
Staff Room Nurse
Bobby Burns
Inmate at Dance Social
Nora Bush
Inmate at Dance Social
Albert Cavens
Inmate at Dance Social
Cliff Clark
Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Angela Clarke
Greek Patient
Ruth Clifford
Nurse
G. Pat Collins
Attendant
James Conaty
Opera Attendant
Harold Cornsweet
Bit Role
Ashley Cowan
Tommy
Jane Crowley
Patient
Irene Dehn
Nurse
Janna DeLoos
Stenographer Nurse
Forrest Dickson
Counterwoman
Bill Duray
Bit Role
Marjorie Eaton
Patient
Mary Emery
Patient
Ben Erway
Doctor
Harry Evans
Office Worker
Mabel Forrest
Patient
Joel Friedkin
Doctor
Geraldine Garrick
Patient
Nina Gilbert
Patient
Donna Hamilton
Patient
Alvin Hammer
Patient
Edna Holland
Elderly Nurse
Jimmie Horan
Inmate at Dance Social
Victoria Horne
Ward 33 Inmate
Bee Humphries
Emma
Isabel Jewell
Ward 33 Inmate
Larry Johns
Minister
Tiny Jones
Inmate
Geraldine Jordan
Patient
Leo Kaye
Hospital Attendant
Doris Kemper
Patient
Joseph La Cava
Inmate at Dance Social
Kate Drain Lawson
Cafe Cashier
Gustave Lax
Inmate at Dance Social
Babe London
Attendant
Louise Lorimer
Nurse
Celia Lovsky
Inmate Gertrude
Ellen Lowe
Patient
George Lynn
Doctor
Therese Lyon
Patient
Patricia Marlowe
Practical Nurse
Mae Marsh
Tommy's Mother
Marion Marshall
Young Girl
Mira McKinney
Patient
Tina Menard
Inmate
Doro Merande
Inmate, First Lady of the Land
Jerry Miley
Bit Role
Belle Mitchell
Inmate
Eula Morgan
Attendant
Harry Hays Morgan
Doctor
Frances Morris
Patient
Richard Neill
Restaurant Patron
Mary Newton
Patient
Anton Northpole
Inmate at Dance Social
Anne O'Neal
Miss Primm - Hospital Dining Room Waitress
Inez Palange
Italian Patient
Barbara Pepper
Patient
Wanda Perry
Nurse
Produced By
Robert Bassler
producer
Anatole Litvak
producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
executive producer
Music
Alfred Newman
Cinematography
Leo Tover
director of photography
Sound
Harry M. Leonard
sound
Arthur von Kirbach
sound
Thomas T. Moulton
sound director
Editing
Dorothy Spencer
film editor
Art Direction
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Director
Joseph C. Wright
Set Design
Ernest Lansing
Set Decorator
Thomas Little
Costumes
Bonnie Cashin
Costume Designer
Makeup
Ben Nye
makeup artist
Esperanza Corona
hair stylist
Ernie Parks
makeup artist
Visual Effects
Fred Sersen
special photographic effects
Assistant Director
David Silver
assistant director
Henry Weinberger
assistant director
Production Management
Raymond A. Klune
production manager
Ben Silvey
production manager
Editorial
Lyman Hallowell
apprentice editor
Other
Darryl F. Zanuck
presenter
Carl A. Binger
psychiatric technical advisor
Alma Margaret Comer
psychiatric technical advisor
M. Ralph Kaufman
psychiatric technical advisor
John N. Rosen
psychiatric technical advisor
Ernst Simmel
psychiatric technical advisor
Norman Stuart
dialogue director
Sidney Loseff Tamarin
psychiatric technical advisor
Curly Twiford
animal actors supplied by
Mary Jane Ward
technical advisor
Music Department
Edward B. Powell
orchestral arrangements
Alfred Newman
musical director
Costume Department
Charles Le Maire
wardrobe director
Sam Benson
wardrobe
Camera Department
Henry Gerzen
grip
Roger Shearman
camera operator
Anthony Ugrin
still photographer
Script Department
Jerry Bryan
script supervisor
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