HECHT, Ben.

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Spellbound. Screenplay for Hitchcock's psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman, and Gregory Peck, released in 1944 to significant acclaim. The present script presents a version of the text, featuring many revised sheets, from the time that the screenplay was submitted for approval to the Motion Picture Association of America.The film is based on the 1927 novel by John Palmer and Hilary A. Saunders (under the pseudonym Francis Beeding) entitled The House of Dr. Edwardes. The script notes "'Spellbound' (The House of Dr Edwardes)" on the first leaf. The first page of text has the novel's title struck through and replaced by the title of the film.Hitchcock and his wife began working on a treatment of the novel in December 1943. Hitchcock hired Angus MacPhail to help a month later, and Ben Hecht then wrote the screenplay. (The opening titles of the film credit the screenplay by Hecht with "adaptation by" MacPhail).The present script includes revised leaves dated 7 July (44 pink leaves), 10 July (2 pink, and 2 yellow leaves), 11 July (1 pink, and 7 yellow leaves), 12 July (3 pink, and 3 yellow leaves), 17 July (2 pink, and 4 yellow leaves), 25 July (4 pink, and 3 yellow leaves), 27 July (5 pink, 13 yellow, and 2 green leaves), and 1 August (2 pink, and 1 yellow leaves)."Hitchcock's Spellbound... [was] the director's most overt handling of psychological subject matter up to that time. Largely based on the theories of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and featuring a stunning

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