Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944/03/22 | Charles R Jackson | Author | "One best-seller did it," Hedda Hopper reports MGM's announcement that they have signed a screenwriting contract with "The Lost Weekend" author, Charles Jackson. | ||||
| 1944/04/20 | Laura Hobson tells Jackson that people on the MGM lot have "talked of nothing else". | ||||||
| 1945/00/00 | Ray Milland spends a night in the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital with patients suffering from alcoholism to prepare for his role in The Lost Weekend | Old Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital | New York City | ||||
| 1945/10/00 | One quiet Sunday, Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam) is filmed stumbling along 3rd Ave, with the El overhead, north from 55th St to 110th St. The camera crew was hidden inside a bakery truck. | Upper East Side Historic District - East | New York City | ||||
| 1945/10/00 | One quiet Sunday, Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam) is filmed stumbling along 3rd Ave, with the El overhead, north from 55th St to 110th St. The camera crew was hidden inside a bakery truck. | East Harlem | |||||
| 1945/10/00 | One quiet Sunday, Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam) is filmed stumbling along 3rd Ave, with the El overhead, north from 55th St to 110th St. The camera crew was hidden inside a bakery truck. | Yorkville | |||||
| 1945/10/00 | In "The Lost Weekend", Ray Milland (playing Don Birnam) hangs on to the Yorkville Clock in a drunken stupor. | Yorkville Sidewalk Clock | New York City | ||||
| 1945/11/16 | Billy Wilder | Director | "The Lost Weekend" is released. | ||||
| 1945/11/16 | Charles Brackett | Screenwriter, Producer | "The Lost Weekend" is released. |
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| Particulars for The Lost Weekend (film): | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Disease | Alcoholism | ||
| Narrative Arts | Drama | ||
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Art Type | Film | ||
| Narrative Arts | Live Action | ||
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Affliction | Struggles with Addiction | ||
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