Daily Dialogue — May 9, 2020

“Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.”

— Spellbound (1945), screen play by Ben Hecht, novel by John Palmer & Hilary St George Saunders, adaptation by Angus MacPhail

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Alfred Hitchcock.

Trivia: Screenwriter Ben Hecht consulted many of the leading psychoanalysts of the day.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The character of Dr. Alexander Brulov may be brilliant, but he’s also something of a misogynist.