Throughout childhood, Benji is kept a secret, even throughout therapy sessions for fear of ending up in "The Snake Pit".
He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Screenplay) in 1948 for The Snake Pit (with Frank Partos), an adaptation of Mary Jane Ward's novel, which also involved confinement in a mental health institution.
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Appeared as a French professor in the romantic Margie (1946), a devoted young doctor protecting Gene Tierney from the evil machinations of Vincent Price in Dragonwyck (1946), and as one of the psychiatrists looking after demented patient Olivia de Havilland in the The Snake Pit (1948).
The Snake Pit would be the first introduced mechanism during chapter 17 of Fengshen Yanyi.