| 词条 | Guest in the House |
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| name = Guest in the House | image = Guest in the House Poster.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = John Brahm Lewis Milestone (uncredited) | producer = Hunt Stromberg | screenplay = Ketti Frings | story = Katherine Albert | based on = {{based on|the play Guest in the House|Hagar Wilde Dale Eunson}} | narrator = | starring = Anne Baxter Ralph Bellamy Aline MacMahon | music = Werner Janssen | cinematography = Lee Garmes | editing = Walter Hannemann James E. Newcom | studio = Hunt Stromberg Productions | distributor = United Artists | released = {{film date|1944|12|08|United States}} | runtime = 117 or 120 minutes[1] | country = United States | language = English | budget = over $1 million[2] | gross = $1,450,000[3] }} Guest in the House (re-release title Satan in Skirts) is a 1944 American film noir directed by John Brahm starring Anne Baxter and Ralph Bellamy. Lewis Milestone began directing the film in April 1944, but was stricken with appendicitis in May 1944 and collapsed on the set. John Brahm then stepped in to direct.[4]PlotMartha Proctor believes something evil has come to her home. Her nephew Dr. Dan Proctor arrives with his betrothed, Evelyn Heath, who is a frail invalid. Evelyn is introduced to Aunt Martha as well as Dan's older brother, Douglas, an illustrator, along with Douglas's wife Ann and his model, Miriam. The women sympathize with Evelyn, knowing of the hard life she has had. Evelyn has bouts of hysteria, involving her fear of birds, and also keeps a secret diary in which she mocks her fiancé Dan and expresses a desire for Douglas instead. While plotting to seduce Douglas, and accusing Dan of jealousy to make him leave, Evelyn next sets out to rid the house of Miriam, whom she sees as a rival. Her gossip succeeds in getting back to Aunt Martha and turning everyone's suspicions to Miriam, who departs. Douglas then quarrels with Ann, driven apart by Evelyn's diabolical schemes. Evelyn goes so far as to destroy the goodbye note Ann has written to him. By the time everyone realizes who's behind all this and decide to commit Evelyn to an asylum, a hysterical Evelyn flees from the house, screaming, and plunges to her death. Cast
ReceptionThe film earned a profit of $50,000.[5][6] Critical responseBosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, gave the film a mixed review when it first opened, writing, "For a more cracked and incredible tale than this quaint one of a mischief-making female has not lately disturbed the screen. As a play by Hagar Wilde and Dale Eunson, it had a moderate run, we understand, but as a film it is openly in peril of being laughed into a quick decline. The fault is as much in the story as it is in the handling by all concerned, for the story is cheaply synthetic and about as logical as a crooner's song...Nor is any help rendered by Anne Baxter, who plays the wrecker with so much coyness that anyone, shy of a blind man, could see that she was up to tricks. And Ralph Bellamy is equally ridiculous as a middle-aged Byronic beau who tries to be boyish and amorous and also solemn and wise. Miss MacMahon remains in the background, which is a happy place for one in this film, while Ruth Warwick, Scott McKay and Jerome Cowan get entwined with the torturings up front. Mr. Stromberg is an eminent producer, but his grip certainly slipped on this job."[7]AccoladesNominations
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References1. ^{{AFI film|id=1378|title=Guest in the House}} 2. ^{{cite journal |last= |first= |date= 3 November 1944|title=Indies $70,000,000 Pix Output |url= https://archive.org/stream/variety156-1944-11#page/n2/mode/1up|dead-url= |journal= Variety|pages = 3|location= |publisher= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=26 July 2016}} 3. ^https://archive.org/stream/variety165-1947-01#page/n480/mode/1up 4. ^{{AFI film|id=1378|title=Guest in the House}}. 5. ^Scott Eyman, Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer, Robson, 2005 p 339 6. ^{{cite book | last = Balio | first = Tino | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars | date = 2009 | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press | isbn = 978-0-299-23004-3 }} p203 7. ^[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9901EFD9143FE23BBC4E52DFB466838E659EDE Crowther, Bosley]. The New York Times, film review, February 16, 1945. Last accessed: February 9, 2010. External links{{wikiquote}}
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