Cobweb, The (1955) - (Movie Clip) Artists Are Better Off Dead

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Sprung Up Like A Toadstool!

Gloria Grahame as Karen, lonely wife of one doctor at the psychiatric clinic, on the phone from a local concert with administrator Vicky (Lillian Gish) fighting about drapes, then sharing with her husband’s suave French senior colleague “Dev” (Charles Boyer), in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Phobic

Inmates dining at the Midwestern psychiatric hospital (noted at the time for its resemblance to the Menninger Clinic in Kansas), Stevie (John Kerr) celebrating because he’s been chosen for an art project, and previously stable Susie (Susan Strasberg) rattled by his suggestion, in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Sometimes A Little Dictatorial

Lively meeting of inmates at the pricey Midwestern psychiatric clinic, chaired by Holcomb (Edgar Stehli), bothered by Oscar Levant, Jan Arvan, Ruth Clifford and Jarma Lewis, Richard Widmark the doctor arriving, Lauren Bacall seems to be on staff, Susan Strasberg and John Kerr backing an initiative, early in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) You're Going To Hate Yourself In The Morning

Finally some background on Lauren Bacall, as Mrs. Rinehart, on staff at the psychiatric hospital, in the workshop visited by patient Stevie (John Kerr) who is, on the whole, grateful that she’s arranged for him to paint the new drapes, in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955, from a novel by William Gibson.