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A letter to three wives /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: TWT2223139D | Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: Studio classic ; 27.Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005]Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Letter to 3 wives
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .L476 2005
Partial contents:
Special features: commentary by Christopher Mankiewicz with Joseph L. Mankiewicz biographers Kenneth Geist and Cheryl Lower "Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel" as seen on Biography on the A & E Network Movietone News Footage (Oscar presentations); restoration comparison; theatrical trailer.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Arthur Miller ; editor, J. Watson Webb Jr. ; music, Alfred Newman ; costume designer, Kay Nelson.
Awards:
  • Academy Awards, Best Director and Screenplay of 1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Barbara Lawrence, Jeffrey Lynn, Connie Gilchrist, Florence Bates, Hobart Cavanaugh.Summary: Slice of Americana about three women on a group vacation receiving a letter from a flirt who has run off with one of their husbands- but who leaves the wives guessing as to whose husband has been stolen.
Holdings
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03258 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050307784

Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.

Adapted by Vera Caspary from the novel : Letter to five wives / by John Klempner.

Also issued in boxed set Studio Classics.

Special features: optional commentary by Christopher Mankiewicz with Joseph L. Mankiewicz biographers Kenneth Geist and Cheryl Lower ; "Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel", an A & E Network Biography program (45 min.); Fox Movietone News (Oscar footage); restoration comparison; theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Special features: commentary by Christopher Mankiewicz with Joseph L. Mankiewicz biographers Kenneth Geist and Cheryl Lower "Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel" as seen on Biography on the A & E Network Movietone News Footage (Oscar presentations); restoration comparison; theatrical trailer.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; stereo., mono.; full-screen format (1.33:1).

In English with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned, main feature only.

Academy Awards, Best Director and Screenplay of 1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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