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A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
Adaptation:
Vera Caspary
Based onA Letter to Five Wives
1945 novel in Hearst's International Cosmopolitan
by John Klempner
Produced bySol C. Siegel
StarringJeanne Crain
Linda Darnell
Ann Sothern
Kirk Douglas
Paul Douglas
Jeffrey Lynn
CinematographyArthur C. Miller
Edited byJ. Watson Webb Jr.
Music byAlfred Newman
Production
company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • February 3, 1949 (1949-02-03)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,750,000 [1]

A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama that tells the story of a woman who sends a letter to three women, saying she has left town with one of their husbands without revealing which one. It stars Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Paul Douglas (in his film debut), Kirk Douglas, and Jeffrey Lynn. Thelma Ritter as "Sadie" and Celeste Holm (the voice of "Addie Ross", the unseen woman who wrote the letter) have key supporting roles.

The film was adapted by Vera Caspary and written for the screen by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from A Letter to Five Wives, a story by John Klempner that appeared in Cosmopolitan, based on a 1945 novel by Klempner.[2][3] It was directed by Mankiewicz, who directed All About Eve the following year.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture.

  1. ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.
  2. ^ Stern, Sydney Ladensohn (2019). The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1617032677.
  3. ^ Picturegoer, 4 June 1949, p.16

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