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Sleep, My Love
Sleep, My Love is a 1948 American noir film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche. Adapted from the serialized novel of the same name by Leo Rosten, it follows a chronic sleepwalker (Colbert) who comes to believe a mysterious man is attempting to murder her. The film was co-produced by Mary Pickford. It has been called "a gaslighting thriller."
Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, awakens on a train bound for Boston with no memory of how she got there. When she phones her husband, Richard, the police listen in and overhear that she had threatened him with a gun. On a flight home, fellow passenger Bruce Elcott is attracted to Alison. Elcott, it turns out, knows one of her good friends.
Back home, Richard makes Alison agree to start seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Rhinehart. However, the 'doctor' who shows up at the house for their first appointment is not Rhinehart, but Charles Vernay, a photographer hired by Richard, who is having an affair with another woman, Daphne, and hopes to get rid of Alison for good.
Richard's scheme is to drive Alison to suicide and thus inherit her wealth. Elcott, who has come to suspect there is some kind of purposeful plan afoot to confuse and distress Alison, arrives just in time to find her, apparently under hypnosis, about to leap from a balcony to her death. Elcott discovers Vernay's role in the situation. Richard, meanwhile, attempts to drug Alison and make her kill the doctor herself.
Vernay realizes he has been betrayed and shoots Richard; Vernay is later killed by falling through a skylight while being chased by Elcott, after which Elcott and Alison are able to be together in peace.
Screen rights for the story, which was written by Leo Rosten and had been serialized in magazines, were purchased by Triangle Productions in November 1946. Rosten wrote the first screenplay but The New Yorker writer St. Clair McKelway was recruited to contribute to the final version.
The film was produced by Mary Pickford, her husband Buddy Rogers and Ralph Cohn. It was Pickford's first film activity in 12 years since The Gay Desperado (1936), although Cohn and Rogers had produced films for Comet Productions. Pickford was involved in approving the cast and script.
In December 1946, the production company approached Richard Ney to head the cast. In April 1947, Don Ameche was signed as the star and Douglas Sirk agreed to direct before Claudette Colbert and Robert Cummings were added to the cast.
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Sleep, My Love
Sleep, My Love is a 1948 American noir film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche. Adapted from the serialized novel of the same name by Leo Rosten, it follows a chronic sleepwalker (Colbert) who comes to believe a mysterious man is attempting to murder her. The film was co-produced by Mary Pickford. It has been called "a gaslighting thriller."
Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, awakens on a train bound for Boston with no memory of how she got there. When she phones her husband, Richard, the police listen in and overhear that she had threatened him with a gun. On a flight home, fellow passenger Bruce Elcott is attracted to Alison. Elcott, it turns out, knows one of her good friends.
Back home, Richard makes Alison agree to start seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Rhinehart. However, the 'doctor' who shows up at the house for their first appointment is not Rhinehart, but Charles Vernay, a photographer hired by Richard, who is having an affair with another woman, Daphne, and hopes to get rid of Alison for good.
Richard's scheme is to drive Alison to suicide and thus inherit her wealth. Elcott, who has come to suspect there is some kind of purposeful plan afoot to confuse and distress Alison, arrives just in time to find her, apparently under hypnosis, about to leap from a balcony to her death. Elcott discovers Vernay's role in the situation. Richard, meanwhile, attempts to drug Alison and make her kill the doctor herself.
Vernay realizes he has been betrayed and shoots Richard; Vernay is later killed by falling through a skylight while being chased by Elcott, after which Elcott and Alison are able to be together in peace.
Screen rights for the story, which was written by Leo Rosten and had been serialized in magazines, were purchased by Triangle Productions in November 1946. Rosten wrote the first screenplay but The New Yorker writer St. Clair McKelway was recruited to contribute to the final version.
The film was produced by Mary Pickford, her husband Buddy Rogers and Ralph Cohn. It was Pickford's first film activity in 12 years since The Gay Desperado (1936), although Cohn and Rogers had produced films for Comet Productions. Pickford was involved in approving the cast and script.
In December 1946, the production company approached Richard Ney to head the cast. In April 1947, Don Ameche was signed as the star and Douglas Sirk agreed to direct before Claudette Colbert and Robert Cummings were added to the cast.