Jeanne Crain
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Plot. Friends Deborah Bishop, Rita Phipps and Lora Mae Hollingsway are just about to take a group of children on a riverboat outing when they receive a message from Addie Ross informing them that she has taken one of their husbands as a lover. However, Addie does not specify which woman's husband is involved in the affair.
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Just before embarking on the boat ride to the island where the picnic will be held, the three friends receive a joint letter from Addie, who states not only that she has left town for good, but that but she has run off with one of their husbands.
A Letter to Three Wives: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas. A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1949-02-03
Synopsis. Just as they are about to board a boat for an all-day charity picnic, three married women of suburban New York--Deborah Bishop, Lora May Hollingsway and Rita Phipps-- receive a single letter from Addie Ross, the sophisticated town flirt, informing them that she has run off with one of their husbands.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Gaston Glass
- Jeanne Crain
A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Deborah Bishop, Lora Mae Hollingsway and Rita Phipps are three friends who all receive letters from another friend, Addie Ross, telling them that she is about to leave town with one of their...
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- Drama
A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern. The film was adapted by Vera Caspary and written for the screen by Mankiewicz from A Letter to Five Wives, a story by John Klempner that appeared in Cosmopolitan, based on Klempner's 1945 novel.
