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Mar 4, 2024 · The ending of “A Letter to Three Wives” is both satisfying and surprising, as it reveals that the friend who ran off with one of the husbands is actually a woman named Addie Ross. Addie, who is never seen on screen, is a mysterious and enigmatic character who looms large over the film. Throughout the movie, the three women – Deborah, Lora ...
Oct 13, 2014 · A Letter to Three Wives. By Richard Brody. January 7, 2022. Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s magisterial, buoyant suburban drama, from 1949, concerns three couples and a wild card—the sophisticated ...
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Feb 4, 2019 · A Letter to Three Wives – 1949 Mankiewicz. Apparently there were originally five wives in the novel, Mankiewicz filmed four (Anne Baxter would be cut by producers) so we’re at three. Of course Baxter would bounce back with Mankiewicz the following year with All About Eve. The voice-over here is a writer’s tool largely in cinema and this ...
Aug 12, 2019 · A Letter to Three Wives is filled with such rich and deep subtext, a credit to Joseph L. Mankiewicz's mastery of writing and directing. I would argue that the voiceover was perhaps the worst element: Holm was a bit too haughty and early on prone to make quips. Fortunately, the voiceovers died down. Perhaps the last shot too was a bit overdone.
Thelma Ritter as "Sadie" and Celeste Holm (the voice of "Addie Ross", the unseen woman who wrote the letter) are both uncredited. 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.
Recently viewed. 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.
