The Letter

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The Letter

film by Wyler [1940]

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William Wyler
Films of the 1940s of William Wyler
The Letter (1940), based on a short story and play by W. Somerset Maugham, became one of the decade’s biggest hits and featured another formidable Academy Award-nominated performance by Davis as the unfaithful wife of a rubber plantation owner (Herbert Marshall) who goes broke trying…
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The Letter (1940), based on a short story and play by W. Somerset Maugham, became one of the decade’s biggest hits and featured another formidable Academy Award-nominated performance by Davis as the unfaithful wife of a rubber plantation owner (Herbert Marshall) who goes broke trying…
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Bette Davis
…made several successful movies, including The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), and The Corn Is Green (1945), and she received Academy Award nominations for her performances in the first three films. However, her career began to falter near the end of…
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…made several successful movies, including The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), and The Corn Is Green (1945), and she received Academy Award nominations for her performances in the first three films. However, her career began to falter near the end of…
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