A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

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Directed by

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring (View all)

Jeanne Crain
Deborah Bishop

Linda Darnell
Lora Mae Hollingsway

Ann Sothern
Rita Phipps

Kirk Douglas
George Phipps

Paul Douglas
Porter Hollingsway

Barbara Lawrence
Babe Finney

Jeffrey Lynn
Brad Bishop

Connie Gilchrist
Ruby Finney

Written by

Vera Caspary
(adaptation)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(screenplay)

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Description: Before he made the classic All About Eve, writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz made this clever story about three wives who spend an afternoon at a children's picnic mulling over a letter all three had just received, from a woman who says she's just run off with one of their husbands. As the wives--a former farm girl (Jeanne Crain), a radio soap opera writer (Ann Sothern), and a social climber from the wrong side of the tracks (Linda Darnell)--mull over the troubles of their marriages, each begins to think that she's the one left behind. A Letter to Three Wives doesn't have the crackling show-biz milieu of Eve, but it has the sa ... (more)

Release date: 3 February 1949
UPC: 024543131397

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