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Bette Davis was reportedly fascinated by the actress Jeanne Eagels, who had played the part of Leslie in the 1929 film version of The Letter. In W. Somerset Maugham's original play The Letter , after Leslie confesses to her husband that she still loves the man she killed, she gets away with the crime.
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For some reason all the films Bette Davis made under the guiding hand of director William Wyler represent her best work, and The Letter is no exception. Made in 1940, the movie shows attitudes that have changed greatly in western society since that picture was made - the contempt people have for Gayle Sondergaard's character is a question in.
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Directed by William Wyler and featuring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, and James Stephenson, The Letter is a gripping 1940 crime melodrama. Based on W. Somer.
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The Letter: Directed by William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort. The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
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THE LETTER (1940) Directed by William Wyler. Based on the story by Somerset Maugham. This spellbinding film is set in British-occupied Singapore & stars Bette Davis as the vengeful, spurned wife.
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Brief Synopsis. Read More. In this sumptuous remake of the 1940 Bette Davis/Herbert Marshall version of Somerset Maugham's tale of smoldering passions on a rubber plantation in the Malayan jungles, Lee Remick and Australian actor Jack Thompson star as the restless wife and her rubber planter husband behind whose back she had.
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Josh Gillam ★★★★. After killing her lover, the wife (Bette Davis) of a rubber plantation owner (Herbert Marshall) living in Malaya is put on trial, but after an incriminating letter turns up her apparently simple defence is complicated, in William Wyler's noir melodrama with James Stephenson and Gale Sondergaard.
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Indubitably Mr. Wyler must be grateful to Bette Davis, James Stephenson, Herbert Marshall and an excellent cast for doing as he told them; obviously Mr. Maugham supplied him with a potent play.
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On Blu-ray: Bette Davis at Her Best in William Wyler's The Letter (1940) Adapted from a Somerset Maugham novel, the story of a married woman living on a far east plantation who kills her lover first came to the screen in 1929 as one of the few movie performances of troubled stage actress Jeanne Eagels. Her performance remains remarkable today.
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The Letter is a 1940 American crime melodrama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham derived from his own short story. The play was first filmed in 1929, by director Jean de Limur.The story was inspired by a real-life scandal involving the.
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Bette Davis pumps bullets into a man's body. Was it self-defense? Only THE LETTER ('40) can answer.Learn more about THE LETTER ('40) here: http://myt.cm/TheL.
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The Letter is a 1940 American FILM NOlR crime drama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by.
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The Letter from 1940 starring Bette Davis. Directed by William Wyler, co-starring Herbert Marshall. As I state in the intro, this movie is definitely my favo.
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The magnificent final scene of The Letter follows self-possessed Bette Davis into the Malaysian tropics, lured by intoxicating shadows formed by clouds eclipsing the moon. It's a scene fraught with suspense, the kind that Warner Bros. would hype as "Her Date With Destiny.". And her date culminates with an uncompromised moment of cruel.
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The Letter (1940) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu.. Bette Davis. Leslie Crosbie: Herbert Marshall. Robert Crosbie: James Stephenson. Golden Age Films I Enjoyed (All Genres) a list of 44 titles
