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{{short description|1945 film by Billy Wilder}}
{{Other uses|Lost Weekend (disambiguation){{!}}Lost Weekend}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Lost Weekend
| image          = The Lost Weekend (1945 film).jpg
| alt            =
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Billy Wilder]]
| screenplay     = {{ubl|[[Charles Brackett]]|Billy Wilder}}
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[The Lost Weekend (novel)|The Lost Weekend]]''|[[Charles R. Jackson]]}}
| producer       = Charles Brackett
| starring       = {{ubl|[[Ray Milland]]|[[Jane Wyman]]|[[Phillip Terry]]|[[Howard da Silva]]|[[Doris Dowling]]|[[Frank Faylen]]}}
| cinematography = [[John F. Seitz]]
| editing        = [[Doane Harrison]]
| music          = [[Miklós Rózsa]]
| color_process  = [[Black and white]]
| studio         = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| distributor    = Paramount Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|1945|11|29}}
| runtime        = 101 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 99:01--><ref>{{cite web|title=The Lost Weekend – Diary of a Dipsomaniac (PG)|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-lost-weekend-diary-of-a-dipsomaniac-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmzexmtg|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=1945-08-23|access-date=2024-07-29}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1.25 million
| gross          = $11,000,000<ref name="numbers">[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1945/0LOWE.php Box Office Information for ''The Lost Weekend''.] [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]. Retrieved March 8, 2014.</ref> plus $4.3 million (US rentals)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/variety165-1947-01|title=Variety (January 1947)|date=December 3, 1947|publisher=New York: Variety Publishing Company|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
}}

'''''The Lost Weekend''''' is a 1945 American drama [[film noir]] directed by [[Billy Wilder]], and starring [[Ray Milland]] and [[Jane Wyman]]. It was based on [[Charles R. Jackson]]'s [[The Lost Weekend (novel)|1944 novel]] about an [[Alcoholism|alcoholic]] writer. The film was nominated for seven [[Academy Awards]] and won four: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]], and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first [[Cannes Film Festival]], making it one of only four films—the other three being ''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]'' (1955), ''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]'' (2019) and ''[[Anora]]'' (2024)—to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.

On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_weekend |title=The Lost Weekend (1945) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref> In 2011, it was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref>{{Cite web|title=With "20,000 Leagues," the National Film Registry Reaches 700|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-16-209/with-20000-leagues-the-national-film-registry-reaches-700/2016-12-14/|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

==Plot==
On Thursday, alcoholic New York writer Don Birnam is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick. Although they are leaving mid-afternoon, when Don's girlfriend Helen drops by with gifts for him and two tickets for a concert that afternoon, Don suggests that Wick attend with her; the brothers can then catch a later train. His motive is self-serving: he has a bottle hanging by a rope outside the window and wants to retrieve it and secure it in his suitcase. Wick eventually discovers the bottle. Don claims to have forgotten it was there; Wick pours it down the drain. Now, knowing that all the liquor Don had hidden in the apartment has been disposed of, and believing that he has no money for more, Helen and Wick go to the concert.

After finding ten dollars Wick left for the cleaning lady, Don heads for Nat's Bar, calling in at a liquor store on the way to purchase two bottles of [[Rye whiskey|rye]]. He intends to be back home in time to meet Wick and catch their train but his drinking makes him lose track of time. Arriving home, he sees Wick and Helen on the street and, concealing himself, overhears Wick say that he has given up on helping Don and is leaving, scolding Helen for deciding to stay and wait for Don. Don sneaks back into the apartment and hides a bottle while drinking the other one.

On Friday, at Nat's Bar, Don learns that Helen came in looking for him the previous night. Don says that he intends to write a novel about his battle with alcoholism, called ''The Bottle''. In a flashback, he recalls how he first met Helen at the opera house. The cloakroom has mixed up their coats. Subsequently, the two strike up a romance, and he remains sober during this time. While going to meet her parents, he overhears them talking about his unemployment and how they are not certain if he is good enough for Helen. He loses his nerve and sneaks off, after phoning Helen from a booth and making a phony excuse, ostensibly intending to actually meet her parents later. However, he returns home and gets drunk. She goes to his apartment, where Wick tries to cover for him, but Don confesses that he is two people: "Don the writer", whose fear of failure causes him to drink, and "Don the drunk", who always has to be bailed out by Wick. Helen devotes herself to helping him.

After telling Nat the story behind his proposed novel, Don heads back home to begin writing it. However, his alcohol cravings get the better of him and he begins a search for that second bottle from the previous night. He cannot remember where he hid it. He goes to a nightclub, realizes that he cannot pay the bill and steals money from a woman's purse. He is caught, thrown out, and told never to return. Once home, he finds the hidden bottle and drinks himself into a stupor.

On Saturday, Don is broke and feeling sick. He decides to pawn his typewriter so he can buy more alcohol, although he dreads the walk to the shop because he feels so ill. He discovers  the pawnshops are closed for [[Yom Kippur]]. Desperate for money, he visits Gloria, a prostitute who has a crush on him. She gives him some money, but he falls down her stairs and is knocked unconscious.

On Sunday, Don wakes up in an alcoholics' ward at [[Bellevue Hospital]], where a nurse, Bim Nolan, mocks him and other guests at "Hangover Plaza".  Bim offers to help offset his sure-to-come [[delirium tremens]], but Don rejects the assistance and escapes while the staff are occupied with a raving, violent patient.

On Monday, Don steals a bottle of whiskey from a store after threatening the owner and spends the day drinking. Suffering from delirium tremens, he hallucinates a nightmarish scene in which a bat flies in through his window and kills a mouse, spilling its blood. His screams alert a neighbour, who contacts Helen, who immediately goes over. Finding Don collapsed and in a delirious state, she assists him to clean up and get to bed; she stays overnight on his couch.

On Tuesday morning, Don slips out and pawns Helen's coat, the one that had brought them together. She trails him to the pawn shop and learns from the pawnbroker that Don traded the coat for his gun, for which he has bullets at home. She races back to Don's apartment and interrupts him just as he is about to shoot himself. She pleads with him, even going so far as to beg him to drink the last portion of whisky left in the bottle he had stolen and which she had concealed.  She declares she would rather he be alive as an alcoholic. He refuses and, while they are arguing, Nat arrives to return Don's typewriter. After Nat leaves, Helen finally convinces him that "Don the writer" and "Don the drunk" are the same person. He commits to writing his novel ''The Bottle'', dedicated to her, which will recount the events of the weekend. As evidence of his resolve, he drops a cigarette into the glass of whisky to make it undrinkable.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Ray Milland]] as Don Birnam
* [[Jane Wyman]] as Helen St. James
* [[Phillip Terry]] as Wick Birnam
* [[Howard da Silva]] as Nat
* [[Doris Dowling]] as Gloria
* [[Frank Faylen]] as 'Bim' Nolan, the ward nurse
* [[Mary Young (actress)|Mary Young]] as Mrs. Deveridge
* [[Anita Sharp-Bolster|Anita Bolster]] as Mrs. Foley
* [[Lilian Fontaine]] as Mrs. St. James
* [[Frank Orth]] as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
* [[Lewis Russell]] as Mr. St. James
* [[Harry Tenbrook]] as Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
}}

==Production and notable features==
Wilder was originally drawn to this material after having worked with [[Raymond Chandler]] on the screenplay for ''[[Double Indemnity (1944 film)|Double Indemnity]]''. Chandler was a recovering alcoholic at the time, and the stress and tumultuous relationship with Wilder during the collaboration caused him to start drinking again. Wilder made the film, in part, to try to explain Chandler to himself.<ref name="dvd2">{{cite news | title = Shadows of Suspense | work = Double Indemnity Universal Legacy Series DVD | publisher = [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] | year = 2006}}</ref>

Wilder originally wanted [[Jose Ferrer]] for the role of Don, but he turned it down. Charles Brackett's first choice for playing Helen was [[Olivia de Havilland]], but she was involved with a lawsuit that prevented her from being in any film at that time.  It has been said that [[Katharine Hepburn]] and [[Jean Arthur]] were also considered for the role.<ref>[[Robert Osborne]] of [[Turner Classic Movies]]</ref>

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Film critic [[Manny Farber]] in ''[[The New Republic]]'', January 7, 1946, offered this appraisal of [[Frank Faylen]]’s performance as "Bim" Nolan in ''The Lost Weekend'':
"One episode where the directing and the acting have a fling involves a male nurse, in a provocative, sneering act—one of the only inspired movie portraits of homosexuality I have ever seen."<ref>Farber, 2009 p. 269</ref>}}

The majority of the film was shot at Paramount studios in Hollywood. Wilder, however, insisted they shoot part of the film on location in [[New York City]] to create a distinct sense of realism. On October 1, 1944, Wilder and his small crew began filming in New York, mostly along [[Third Avenue]] in Midtown East Manhattan. To further create a realistic atmosphere, Wilder and his crew used hidden cameras, placing them behind boxes or in the back of trucks, and capturing Milland as he walked up 3rd Avenue among actual pedestrians who were unaware a film was being made. The production also had the unprecedented permission to film inside [[Bellevue Hospital]] in the alcoholic ward, a request that would be denied to future films. After completing filming in New York, the cast and crew returned to California to resume principal photography, where they recreated several New York locations, including a replica of [[P. J. Clarke's]], a tavern often frequented by author Charles Jackson.<ref name="phillips">{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Gene|title=Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder|date=2010|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0813173672|pages=76–78, 83|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uohNoRFkwIC&q=%22lost+weekend%22+%22third%22&pg=PT91|access-date=8 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>

The film also made famous the "character walking toward the camera in a daze as time passes" camera effect.<ref>Farber, 2009 pp. 210-211: Critic [[Manny Farber]] devotes an entire essay, "The Case of the Hidden Camera" that largely deals with the virtues of its application in ''The Lost Weekend''. See ''[[The New Republic]]'', January 1, 1945</ref>

Once ''The Lost Weekend'' was completed, it was shown to a preview audience, who laughed at what they considered Milland's overwrought performance, and the studio actually considered shelving the film. Part of the problem was that the print shown at the preview did not have [[Miklós Rózsa]]'s original musical soundtrack, but instead had a temporary track containing upbeat jazz music. However, once the Rózsa score was in place, along with a re-shoot of the last scene, audiences and critics reacted favorably. The film's musical score was among the first to feature the [[theremin]], which was used to create the pathos of alcoholism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmmusiccritics.org/ifmca-legends/miklos-rozsa/|title=Miklós Rózsa|date=25 November 2010 |publisher=International Film Music Critics Association|access-date=3 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="phillips" />

Rights to the film are currently held by [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]], which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library via [[EMKA, Ltd.]]

The film differs significantly from the book by leaving out the novel's noted homosexual overtones, namely the strong implication that Don Birnam is (as was the book's author, Charles Jackson) a closeted homosexual.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198640/farther-and-wilder-by-blake-bailey|title='Farther and Wilder' by Blake Bailey|access-date=July 29, 2024}}</ref>

The liquor industry launched a campaign to undermine the film even before its release. Allied Liquor Industries, a national trade organization, wrote an open letter to Paramount warning that anti-drinking groups would use the film to reinstate prohibition. Liquor interests allegedly enlisted gangster [[Frank Costello]] to offer Paramount $5 million to buy the film's negative in order to burn it.<ref name="phillips" /> Wilder quipped that if they’d offered him $5 million, "I would have [burned the negative]."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Terrall |first1=Ben |title=The Lost Weekend |url=http://filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/The-Lost-Weekend.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/The-Lost-Weekend.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=filmnoirfoundation.org |access-date=16 January 2019}}</ref>

==Reception==
[[James Agee]], critic and author, writing in ''[[The Nation (magazine)| The Nation]]'' 1945: "{{nbsp}}... it is unusually hard, tense, cruel, intelligent, and straightforward. But I see nothing in it that is new, sharply individual, or strongly creative. It is, rather, a skillful restatement, satisfying and easy to overrate in a time of general dereliction and fatuousness, of some sound basic commonplaces."<ref>Agee, James - ''Agee on Film Vol. 1'' © 1958 by The James Agee Trust.</ref> [[Leslie Halliwell]] gave it four of four stars, stating: "Startlingly original on its release, this stark little drama keeps its power, especially in the scenes on New York streets and in a dipso ward. It could scarcely have been more effectively filmed."<ref>Halliwell's Film Guide, 7th Edition 1987 ISBN 0-06-016322-4</ref> [[Pauline Kael]] wrote, "{{nbsp}}... an unusually daring popular melodrama{{nbsp}}... The picture lacks fluidity, and the slowly paced scenes seem overcalculated, with each colorful character and tense vignette standing out too sharply; everything is nailed down to a meaning for us. The whole thing is short in imaginative resonance; what it has is the Brackett-Wilder specialty—a distinctive cruel (and sometimes cruelly funny) edge."<ref>Kael, Pauline - ''5001 Nights at the Movies'' 1991 ISBN 0-8050-1366-0</ref> ''[[Leonard Maltin]]'' gave the film four of four stars: "Unrelenting drama of alcoholism—and a landmark of adult film-making."<ref>Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide - Third Edition 2015 ISBN 978-0-14-751682-4</ref>

On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film holds a 97% rating based on 74 reviews. The site's consensus: "Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_weekend | title=The Lost Weekend &#124; Rotten Tomatoes | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref>

===Box office performance===
The film was a commercial success. Produced on a budget of $1.25 million, it grossed $11 million at the box office,<ref name="numbers"/> earning $4.3 million in US [[Gross rental|theatrical rentals]].<ref>"All-Time Top Grossers", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 8 January 1964 p. 69.</ref>

===Academy Awards===
At the [[18th Academy Awards]] in March 1946, ''The Lost Weekend'' received seven nominations and won in four categories.

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|-
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
! Lost To
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
|[[Charles Brackett]]
|{{Won}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|[[Billy Wilder]]
|{{Won}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|[[Ray Milland]]
|{{Won}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
|[[Billy Wilder]] and [[Charles Brackett]]
|{{Won}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
|[[John F. Seitz]]
|{{Nom}}
|<small>[[Harry Stradling]] for ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)|The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''</small>
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
|[[Miklós Rózsa]]
|{{Nom}}
|<small>[[Miklós Rózsa]] for ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]''</small>
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
|[[Doane Harrison]]
|{{Nom}}
|<small>Robert J. Kern for ''[[National Velvet (film)|National Velvet]]''</small>
|}

===Cannes Film Festival===
This film also shared the [[1946 in film|1946]] ''[[Palme d'Or|Grand Prix du Festival International du Film]]'' at the first [[Cannes Film Festival]] and [[Ray Milland|Milland]] was awarded [[Prix d'interprétation masculine|Best Actor]]. To date, ''The Lost Weekend'', ''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]'' ([[1955 in film|1955]]), ''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]'' ([[2019 in film|2019]]), and ''[[Anora]]'' ([[2024 in film|2024]]) are the only films ever to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival. (''Marty'' received the ''[[Palme d'Or]]'' (Golden Palm), which, beginning at the 1955 festival, replaced the ''Grand Prix du Festival International du Film'' as the highest award.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037884/awards?ref_=tt_awd|title=The Lost Weekend Awards|website=Imdb}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048356/awards?ref_=tt_awd|title=Marty Awards|website=Imdb}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/the-festival/the-palme-d-or|title=The Palme D'or from its creation to the present day|publisher=Festival De Cannes|website=Festival de Cannes Official Website}}</ref>

===National Film Registry===
In 2011, ''The Lost Weekend'' was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States [[Library of Congress]] and selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]].<ref name="LOC">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-240.html|title=2011 National Film Registry More Than a Box of Chocolates|work=Library of Congress|date=December 28, 2011|access-date=December 28, 2011}}</ref> The Registry said the film was "an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism" and that it "melded an expressionistic film-noir style with documentary realism to immerse viewers in the harrowing experiences of an aspiring New York writer willing to do almost anything for a drink."<ref name="LOC"/>

==Adaptations==
''The Lost Weekend'' was adapted as a radio play on the January 7, 1946, broadcast of [[The Screen Guild Theater]], starring Milland, Wyman, and Faylen in their original film roles.

On March 10, 1946, three days after winning the Academy Award, Milland appeared as a guest on a radio broadcast of ''[[Jack Benny|The Jack Benny Show]]''. In a spoof of ''The Lost Weekend'', Milland and Jack Benny played alcoholic twin brothers. [[Phil Harris]], who normally played Jack Benny's hard-drinking bandleader on the show, played the brother who tried to convince Ray and Jack to give up liquor. ("Ladies and gentlemen," said an announcer, "the opinions expressed by Mr. Harris are written in the script and are not necessarily his own.") In the alcoholic ward scene, smart-aleck [[Frank Nelson (actor)|Frank Nelson]] played the ward attendant who promised Ray and Jack that they would soon start seeing [[Delirium tremens|DT]] visions of strange animals. When the DT visions appeared (with [[Mel Blanc]] providing pig squeals, monkey chatters, and other animal sound effects), Ray chased them off. "Ray, they're gone!", Benny shouted. "What did you do?" Milland replied, "I threw my Oscar at them!"

On April 21, 1949, [[Jackie Gleason]], making his debut as a regular on [[NBC]]'s ''The Hank Ladd Show'' (known prior to that date as ''[[The Arrow Show]]'', newly recast and retitled accordingly), delivered what ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' dubbed the episode's "standout segment" with his ''Lost Weekend'' spoof. Portraying the protagonist as a "five-year-old moppet who gets plastered on soft drinks," he is seen "guzzling milk shakes and cokes, weaving down Third Avenue and finally, hit by the DT's, scared witless by a Mickey Mouse."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Television Reviews: HANK LADD SHOW|author=Bril.|date=April 27, 1994|work=Variety|page=30|quote=With Ladd, Jackie Gleason, Carol Bruce (4), The Tattler, Anoinette Gilkey, Bob Dickson; Producer: Rod Erickson; Director: William H. Brown Jr.; Writers: Al Singer, Tom Adair, Ernie Glucksman [...] The Arrow Show, which headlined Phil Silvers, abetted by Jack Gilford, has been completely reformatted and fitted out with a new star, Hank Ladd.|id={{ProQuest|1286077445}}}}</ref>

== References ==
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== Sources ==
*[[Manny Farber|Farber, Manny]]. 2009. ''Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber''. Edited by [[Robert Polito]]. [[Library of America]]. {{ISBN |  978-1-59853-050-6}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb title|0037884}}
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* {{rotten-tomatoes|lost_weekend|The Lost Weekend}}
* [http://www.filmsite.org/lostw.html ''The Lost Weekend''] film review at filmsite.org
* [https://archive.org/download/ScreenGuildTheater/Sgt_46-01-07_ep279_Lost_Weekend.mp3 ''The Lost Weekend''] on [[Screen Guild Theater]]: January 7, 1946

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