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Aug 15, 2017 · Director William Wyler was the love of Bette’s life, she often said, although some researchers would argue that Franchot Tone fit that description better than he. Wyler described her as passionate, emotional, and ‘with more energy than anyone I’d ever known’.
The Letter is a 1940 American crime film noir 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.
- Hal B. Wallis (Exec)
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 written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
- William Wyler
- 149
- 2 min
Jezebel: Directed by William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay. In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
- William Wyler
- 130
- 2 min
Bette Davis received three Oscar nominations for her screen work under Wyler, and won her second Oscar for her performance in Wyler's 1938 film Jezebel. [14] [15] [16] She told Merv Griffin in 1972 that Wyler trained her with that film to be a "far, far better actress" than she had been. [17]
- 5
- July 27, 1981 (aged 79), Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
- 1925–1970
- Carl Laemmle Jr. (cousin)
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Jan 18, 2022 · Published January 18, 2022 by Penny Flores. Bette Davis in William Wyler’s The Letter (1940) I’ve always viewed the films that Bette Davis made with director William Wyler as an emotionally charged conversation between actress and filmmaker.
The Little Foxes: Directed by William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson. The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.
