# histrionic personality disorder in film

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**Created:** [January 26, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433 "2019-01-26T03:30:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/1 "2019-01-26T03:30:54Z")

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There are lots of examples of the other cluster B disorders in film like narcissism, sociopathy, borderline.

What about histrionic personality disorder? Any films with good examples of it?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/2 "2019-01-26T03:59:16Z")

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[Reading the definition](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/histrionic-personality-disorder), what first comes to mind is Joe Peshi in the Lethal Weapon movies, and also Joe Peshi in almost anything else.

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/3 "2019-01-26T15:17:01Z")

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I read an analysis of ‘types’ in films that ventured Scarlett O’Hara in ‘Gone With the Wind’ had a histrionic personality disorder. But I think she was more of a narcissist.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/4 "2019-01-26T17:47:50Z")

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While Scarlett was self-absorbed, I think of her more as histrionic.

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**Author:** ![Royal\_Nonesutch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/5 "2019-01-26T19:41:46Z")

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The character of Charlie Cheswick in the film “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, perfectly played by Sydney Lassick seemed like the Poster Boy (Poster Manchild?) for HPD.

One of the best small, unheralded, yet expertly acted roles in modern American cinema history.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/6 "2019-01-26T20:15:40Z")

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Gene Wilder in " The Producers " ?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/histrionic-personality-disorder-in-film/828433/7 "2019-01-26T22:40:35Z")

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Debbie in [Addams Family Values](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ1DhcS2v8).

“Don’t I deserve love… and jewelry?”

Although she slid over to psychopath pretty quickly.