Diary of a Mad Housewife

US (1970): Comedy/Drama

Superstardom was predicted for Carrie Snodgress on the basis of her spectacular film debut in this picture. Ms. Snodgress plays the long-suffering wife of pushy, insensitive attorney Richard Benjamin. Unable to withstand being treated as a trophy (and a tarnished one at that), Snodgress has a brief affair with sexy Frank Langella. Alas, Langella, like virtually every other male character in the film, is just as selfish and self-involved as Benjamin. Even when she enters group therapy, Snodgress is disenchanted by the obtuseness and chauvinism of her male psychiatrist. Nominated for an Academy Award for her performance, Carrie Snodgress dropped out of films shortly afterward to become the live-in love of rock star Neil Young. She returned to films and television in the late 1970s. Frank Perry directs his wife Eleanor's adaptation of the Sue Kaufman novel for Universal. (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)

· Actress 1970: Carrie Snodgress

1 nomination