Guest In The House [DVD] [1944]

In Guest in the House, Anne Baxter (All About Eve) stars as the unhinged, psychotic Evelyn Heath, who needs a quite place to relax and recuperate. Her doctor, Dan Proctor (Scott McKay) lets her use his house in Maine, where she process to manipulate his happily-married brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy Trading Places) into falling in love with her. Her cruel campaign to convince everyone in the house that she is the poor, innocent party causes a major rift when she is told to get professional help, she responds by trying to lure poor Dan into marriage and a final showdown results in death and redemption. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music in 1946