Deception

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Claude Rains, Bette Davis, and Paul Henreid in formal attire stand in a furnished room, with Bette Davis shaking hands with Claude Rains in a scene from Deception (1946).

Deception

film by Rapper [1946]

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Irving Rapper
Heyday at Warner Brothers
…Davis, Rains, and Henreid on Deception, a florid melodrama that was among the director’s best pictures; it was based on Louis Verneuil’s play Monsieur Lamberthier. Davis played a music teacher whose marriage to a cellist (Henreid) is threatened by her former lover (Rains), an egotistical composer.
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…Davis, Rains, and Henreid on Deception, a florid melodrama that was among the director’s best pictures; it was based on Louis Verneuil’s play Monsieur Lamberthier. Davis played a music teacher whose marriage to a cellist (Henreid) is threatened by her former lover (Rains), an egotistical composer.
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