The Snake Pit

Posted by Leah on 4/11/2016 12:49:14 PM

        Although Olivia de Havilland was a well-known and respected actress by the time Gone with the Wind came along, it is for the role of Melanie Hamilton that she’s most famous for. And while I certainly didn’t think that Gone with the Wind was her only acting credit, I never really gave it much thought as I’d never seen her in anything else, until The Snake Pit.
 
         The Snake Pit came out nine years after Gone with the Wind, and the character de Havilland plays in it couldn’t be more different than Melanie Hamilton. De Havilland played Hamilton as a meek but dutiful, fiercely ...

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