The Snake Pit
“Married and in love... with a man she didn't know or want!”
Synopsis
Virginia Cunningham awakens in a mental hospital without recollection of how she arrived there. She experiences delusions and cannot recognize her husband, Robert, while receiving treatment from Dr. Mark Kik, who seeks to determine the cause of her condition. As therapy continues, flashbacks portray events in Virginia.
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Edited by Dorothy SpencerShot by Leo ToverScored by Alfred Newman
Also known as
- Die Schlangengrubede
- Menschen im Schattende
- Nido de víborases
- La Fosse aux serpentsfr
- La fossa dei serpentiit
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Cast & Crew
48 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Olivia De Havilland
as Virginia Stuart Cunningham
Mark Stevens
as Robert Cunningham
Leo Genn
as Dr. Mark Kik
Celeste Holm
as Grace
Glenn Langan
as Dr. Terry
Helen Craig
as Nurse Davis
Leif Erickson
as Gordon
Beulah Bondi
as Mrs. Greer
Lee Patrick
as Asylum Inmate
Howard Freeman
as Dr. Curtis
Natalie Schafer
as Mrs. Stuart
Ruth Donnelly
as Ruth
Supporting cast
26Katherine Locke
as Margaret
Frank Conroy
as Jonathan Gifford
Minna Gombell
as Miss Hart
June Storey
as Miss Bixby (uncredited)
Lora Lee Michel
as Six-Year-Old Virginia (uncredited)
Damian O Flynn
as Mr. Stuart (uncredited)
Ann Doran
as Valerie (uncredited)
Esther Somers
as Nurse Vance (uncredited)
Jacqueline Dewit
as Celia Sommerville (uncredited)
Betsy Blair
as Hester (uncredited)
Lela Bliss
as Miss Greene (uncredited)
Queenie Smith
as Lola (uncredited)
Virginia Brissac
as Miss Seiffert (uncredited)
Grayce Hampton
as Inmate Countess (uncredited)
Mary Treen
as Nurse Jones (uncredited)
Dorothy Neumann
as Champion (uncredited)
Jan Clayton
as Singing Inmate (uncredited)
Marie Blake
as Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Victoria Horne
as Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Doro Merande
as Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Barbara Pepper
as Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Wanda Perry
as Nurse (uncredited)
Vicky Albright
as Two-Year-Old Virginia (uncredited)
Jean Andren
as Nurse (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
as Patient (uncredited)
Angela Clarke
as Greek Patient (uncredited)
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