A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives

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Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter ad... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in A Letter to Three Wives:

Ann Sothern
Linda Darnell
Jeanne Crain
Kirk Douglas
Paul Douglas
Jeffrey Lynn

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Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night.

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Creative Loafing - 9/10 by Matt BrunsonWriter-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's riveting melodrama is set up like a whodunit, only instead of a murderer, the guilty party is a philandering husband.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyMankiewicz's plot device is brilliant and intriguing: On the way to an annual picnic, three housewives learn through a letter that the town's most desirable woman had run off with one of their husbands--flashbacks reveal the state of their marriages.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Dave KehrMankiewicz's writing is bright and hard -- he's sharpening his teeth for All About Eve, made the next year -- but his acid wit is almost too much for his fragile characters to bear.
Examiner.com - 8/10 by Jeff Beck"A Letter to Three Wives" remains a very poignant and universal story today, giving you the feeling that it could take place anytime and anywhere. Of course, it also helps that it's just a good old fashioned and entertaining experience.
The Skinny - 8/10 by Lewis PorteousA brilliantly handled exercise in building understanding of three highly strung characters and the men in their lives.
Movie Metropolis - 7/10 by James PlathIf this were a comedy it might be considered a comedy of manners, because it's all about the social customs of an age-and all the actors do a fine job of bringing the age's nuances to their characters.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 7/10 by Dennis SchwartzA sophisticated and witty slice of life drama.
New Yorker - 6/10 by Richard BrodyDespite its emotional intensity, the film is comic, effervescently so, and its magical ending lends wit a metaphysical dimension.
User Review - 10/10 by Christina ROne of my absolute favorite movies!!! Very well written and presented!!!
User Review - 10/10 by Michael P14 years after this, Joseph L. Mankiewicz would direct a massive commercial failure, Cleopatra. It marked the beginning of the end of the huge studio era filmmaking style. Read about and you'll quickly learn why. In 1949 and 1950 he wrote and directed two virtual masterpieces and two of my favorite films ever, A Letter to Three Wives (a virtual masterpiece) and All About Eve (an absolute masterpiece and one of my top five favorite films ever). But this is all about three wives, so let's get into a short summary of why this is such a fabulous film. To begin with, Mankiewicz's screenplay of Vera Caspary's story adaptation is brilliance. It exemplifies the quick-wittedness and brilliance that came to full fruition in All About Eve. The entire premise of the story is utter brilliance and the entire voiceover is absolutely nailed by Celeste Holm, one of my favorite supporting actresses of the late 40s and early 50s. As Holm's voiceover performance indicates, the acting is pretty much uniformly brilliant. Ann Sothern is incredibly charming and is essentially a pure joy to watch while also adding a great amount of layering. Kirk Douglas is likewise great (as always) as her husband, portraying the self-confidence issues of his character very well without ever over-doing them. Paul Douglas is charming in an odd sort of way, but it works quite well for his character. Linda Darnell, as Douglass's husband, though, steals the show completely. She should've won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her astonishing work here. As it is, she wasn't even nominated, but that's how it goes. She layers her character magnificently and her lines seem to roll off her tongue. Jeanne Crain is really the only weak link in the film, though her work here is better than her Oscar-nominated work this year for Pinky. I guess her second half, portrayed by Jeffrey Lynn, is another weak link Overall, this is a just about perfect film. It's somewhat melodramatic, but Mankiewicz's fascinating screenplay makes up for any semi-lackluster qualities of the story.

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