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A Letter to Three Wives
Directed by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Not Rated
1949
1h 43m
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Romance
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7.7
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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.
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Cast of A Letter to Three Wives
Ann Sothern
Rita Phipps
Linda Darnell
Lora Mae Hollingsway
Jeanne Crain
Deborah Bishop
Kirk Douglas
George Phipps
Paul Douglas
Porter Hollingsway
Jeffrey Lynn
Bradford 'Brad' Bishop
Barbara Lawrence
Georgiana 'Babe' Finney
Connie Gilchrist
Mrs. Ruby Finney
Florence Bates
Mrs. Manleigh
Hobart Cavanaugh
Mr. Manleigh
John Davidson
John, First Waiter
Franklyn Farnum
Country Club Member
Celeste Holm
Addie Ross (voice)
Mae Marsh
Miss Jenkins
Thelma Ritter
Sadie Dugan
Carl Switzer
Leo, Second Messenger
James Adamson
Joe Bautista
Patti Brady
Ralph Brooks
Sayre Dearing
Sam Finn
Stuart Holmes
Wilbur Mack
George Offerman, Jr.
Cosmo Sardo
Charles Tannen
Ruth Vivian
A Letter to Three Wives Ratings & Reviews
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
There's a lot more focus on the development of the women while the men in their lives are really just window dressing. It's this angle that makes the film most intriguing.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Mankiewicz'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.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A sophisticated and witty slice of life drama.
Examiner.com
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.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
If 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.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Writer-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.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Movies this mature, this powerful, this moving, are incredibly rare.
DVDJournal.com
Betsy Bozdech
Unfortunately, the actual ending falls a little flat, but the rest of the movie is entertaining enough to make up for it.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Despite its emotional intensity, the film is comic, effervescently so, and its magical ending lends wit a metaphysical dimension.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Mankiewicz'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.
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Nell Dodson Russell
This film takes a poke at radio soap operas in a slyly pointed fashion.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Star-loaded film with innovative plot.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Matt Bailey
Much of what makes All About Eve such a brilliant film was used previously (and to good effect) in A Letter to Three Wives.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Sharp and bright multi-character film from Mankiewicaz at his best.
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