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Mysteries and Scandals Gail Russell - VIDEO - Intense Psychotherapy Treatment Often not Mentioned
Mysteries and Scandals Gail Russell - VIDEO - Intense Psychotherapy Treatment Often not Mentioned
I think this video does mention the intense psychotherapy treatment Gail Russell received, but many articles appear to paint Gail simply as a drunk and I think that is not exactly what was going on with her.
After losing most of her work prospects Gail would call the radio station DJ and ask them to play the theme to her movie 'The Uninvited', and the station(s) would respond and play 'Stella By Starlight'. I think she put in such a call shortly before her death.
: Was Actress Gail Russell Permanently Impaired From
: Electro-Shock Treatment? VIDEO & Commentary
: November 9, 2015
: Gail Russell was a vibrant Hollywood film actress who rose to
: fame in the forties with her appearances in 'The Uninvited'
: (Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey) and 'Angel and the Badman' (John
: Wayne). Later her career took something of a nosedive after
: John Wayne's jealous wife filed the infamous complaint
: against her alleging an affair, etc..
: Accounts of actress Gail Russell's career slide blame alcohol,
: alcohol abuse, etc., but I always thought something else
: was involved - that something else was missing from the
: biographical data. Indeed, it was published that after Gail
: was named in a court action suit against her she,
: basically, had a nervous breakdown and spent a month in a
: Seattle sanitarium. The suit by actor John Wayne's wife
: accused her and Wayne of an alleged affair, etc., but more
: importantly, the simple observation that Gail went into the
: sanitarium for intense psychotherapy treatment indicates
: something in common with histories on actress Frances
: Farmer, who also was in a Seattle sanitarium, and with
: actress Susan Peters who entered a sanitarium near the end
: of her life.
: Also, actress Gene Tierney stated the horrors of
: electro-convulsive shock treatment and how it affected her
: memory, etc., and Gene suffered a mental condition for the
: remainder of her life.
: So, the larger question is whether electro-convulsive shock
: treatment was any part of that intense psychotherapy which
: Gail Russell underwent while in that Seattle sanitarium. If
: she was subjected to such shock treatment(s) it should be
: published so the blame for her defective driving and career
: slide not be blamed solely on alcohol. The reason is
: because there are explanations for having a compulsion to
: drink or abuse alcohol, and, any person subjected to such
: artificial electric shock escapades would not necessarily
: be in his or her normal right mind. In other words, in such
: cases where shock treatment is involved - it isn't exactly
: just a person 'boozing' it up. With damaged brain cells,
: how can a shock treatment victim have the correct judgement
: to structure his or her life responsibly and properly?
: Significant turns in persons' lives often happen at the
: juncture where the electro-shock treatments are
: administered. In the case of the late actress, Susan
: Peters, death followed not long after her stay in a
: sanitarium. The late actress, Betsy Palmer, had reportedly
: mentioned, in an interview, pain pill abuse in the case of
: Susan Peters, but it doesn't look as if that sanitarium
: stay worked out to cure her. She went straight out to her
: brother's ranch and stayed until she soon died.
: In the case of Gail Russell, the alcohol abuse seems to have
: gotten worse after her stay in the sanitarium and the
: write-ups claim she never recovered from the drinking
: problem, dead at 36. It appears that her drinking turned
: into an uncontrollable habit of abuse after the sanitarium
: visit, and, it also becomes apparent that Gail Russell has
: been painted with a standard line sort of broad-brush
: explanation as to why her career faltered, the overly broad
: blame as alcohol abuse.
: Others entertainers who were in sanitariums or mental health
: wings or facilities.
: Marilyn Monroe, dead at 36
: Melissa Holliday - singer, former 'Baywatch' extra, and
: Playboy model - Shock Treatment Victim
: Ernest Hemingway - great American author listed as suicide.
