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	Letter 1940 Supersite
		The Letter (1940) - lists of 'best' films, stars, scenes, quotes, resources, etc. Buy This Film The Letter (1940) is a classic melodramatic film noir of murder and deceit, effectively directed by.
		Classic Film Guide - My Day at TCM Silent Films Letter, The (1940) Bette Davis gives her typical, powerhouse (and Oscar nominated) performance in this film as a woman accused of killing a man she claims was in self-defense.
		Letter From the - Letter From the Netherlands, 1940 October 1996 Dear Friend, I would like to tell you about the museum in New York where I spent the afternoon looking at some rare old pictures that are amazing not for.
	www.ownerscloset.com /listings/letter-1940.htm (372 words)

	The Letter (1940 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Letter is a 1940 film noir which tells the story of a woman who murders her lover, and then must face his widow and her husband.
		Herbert Marshall appeared in both the 1940 film and the 1929 version.
		The story was made into films a number of times, including the 1947 film, The Unfaithful and a television movie in 1982 with Lee Remick.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Letter_(1940_movie) (149 words)

	Greatest Films of 1940
		A film presentation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a much-loved classic, dramatic story of human life, love, tragedy and conflict, set in the simple, small New England town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire between the turn of the century and World War I. The film is given down-home commentary by the Narrator, Mr.
		The film begins with Lincoln's childhood in the backwoods of Illinois, through his early career, his memorable debates with political rival Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), and his ill-fated love for Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) and his marriage to Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon).
		The film is a slapstick satire on world conditions and fascism at the start of World War II.
	www.filmsite.org /1940.html (149 words)

	Amazon.com: The Letter (1940): DVD
		In the opening sequence of The Letter, director William Wyler delivers a primer on film directing: at a rubber plantation, in the tropical funk of a Malaysian night, the heavy stillness is suddenly broken by shots...
		Other great elements of "The Letter" are the atmospheric photography and sets which perfectelly set the mood of the hot and humid nights on a rubber plantation and the ever present full moon, appearing and disappearing behind clouds and casting shadows (and an accusing glance) on the face of the guilty heroine.
		Unfortunately, the letter is in hands of the mysterious Eurasian widow of the dead man. She will, however, sell the letter to Leslie.
	www.amazon.com /o/ASIN/B000055XM8 (2317 words)

	The Letter (1940)
		The Letter (1940) is a classic melodramatic film noir of murder and deceit, effectively directed by William Wyler.
		What are the forbidden secrets in the letter?
		One of the trailers for the film provocatively asked:
	www.filmsite.org /lett.html (2172 words)

	Film-Forward Review: [THE LETTER (1940)]
		This 1940 Best Picture Academy Award nominee features Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie who, in the film's riveting opening sequence, shoots and kills Geoffery Hammond on her husband's Malayan rubber plantation.
		DVD Extras: Other than the omission of a scene between Leslie Crosbie and her husband that appears in the original film, the alternate ending is almost exactly the same as the final cut.
		As Leslie prepares to go to trial for murder, a letter appears in the hands of Hammond's widow (Gale Sondergaard).
	www.film-forward.com /thelette.html (312 words)

	MJ Justice Meter - Letter, The (1940)
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	www.moviejustice.com /vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=11&item_id=7793 (88 words)

	DeForest Kelley Filmography: Annotated Television and Movie Credits - 1940's
		One of Kelley's convention anecdotes was from this time; he and George Reeves (the original TV Superman) were driving back from their filming stint to their base in Colorado, when their car died in a blizzard on Rabbit Ears Pass.
		He said he hated the film for years, but that it had been fun to do, and he was now able to enjoy it again.
		Though Kelley's character (Smalley) is talked about considerably as a real mean felon, in the final cut - or the one I saw - he is only visible in about 2 scenes and has one line on-camera: "we can't wait for the key!" (in the group trying to unlock the gate).
	klhalliday.com /DeKelley/Annotated/1940s.htm (2582 words)

	Parent Previews: Shop Around The Corner, The
		This movie was the inspiration for the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks e-mail romance film, You?ve Got Mail.
		But the encouraging words of the mysterious letter lady help the bashful bachelor?s self-confidence to blossom despite this adversity.
		The MPAA did not rate The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
	www.gradingthemovies.com /html/mv/gtm_mv001184.shtml (505 words)

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	Related Website - Willie Fung - The Letter (1940)
		Film Reviews: Ziad H. Hamzeh’s "The Letter" is an especially dramatic, if needlessly frantic, work of p...
		Variety - Love is eternal, or at least feels that way, in "The Letter," a slow-moving, glossy Thai remake of a...
		He and Leslie (wearing her white lace shawl covering her head) are taken by Ong to the Chinese quarter and the curio shop of Chung Hi (Willie Fung).
	rotteneggs.com /r/show/se/2216360.html (201 words)

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		Evidently that order was not honored to the letter, since the 1940 Gaslight is still safely available for both theatrical and TV exhibition.
		The 1940 British production of Gaslight was the first of two cinema adaptations of Patrick Hamilton's play.
		Partly to eliminate confusion, and partly to avoid unfavorable comparison to the shorter and far superior British film, MGM allegedly ordered that all prints of the original Gaslight be destroyed.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/13158/review.jhtml (232 words)

	ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movie Reviews & Previews
		Plot: The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here...
		Plot: The comedy spoof series that knows no fear is at it again with its funniest installment yet: SCARY MOVIE 3.
		Directed by: David Zucker Starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, et al.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/letter (424 words)

	The Letter on DVD - MovieWeb
		1940 Version Theatrical TrailerSix years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equalled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter.
		The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy AwardO winner* William Wyler, Davis' director on Jezebel and The Little Foxes.
		Nominated for seven OscarsO including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Supporting Actor (James Stephenson, superb as the anguished defense attorney), The Letter** remains one of Hollywood's most special deliveries, a peerless example of melodrama as movie art.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?012569522527 (271 words)

	Arrowsmith (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The film concerns a young medical researcher ((additional info and facts about Ronald Colman) Ronald Colman) who tries to prevent a plague in a small town while prioritizing who has the right to get the vaccine.
		Arrowsmith (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ar/Arrowsmith_(movie).htm (123 words)

	Classic Noir Online: The Letter (1940).
		Which actor was in both the 1929 and 1940 version?
		"The Letter" is available for only $14.95 through Amazon.
		Bette Davis is the the tough-as-nails lead in this early film noir about lust, murder, blackmail and intrigue in Asia.
	www.classicnoir.com /features/quiz/quiz3.html (138 words)

	1938 Oscar Winners
		Jezebel (AAN) was Davis's first film with William Wyler, who became one of her favorite directors; they worked together twice more, on The Letter (1940) and The Little Foxes (1941), both films earning Oscar nominations for director and actress.
		Her last film was The Children's Hour (1962), for which she earned another best supporting actress nomination by playing against type as the ruthless dowager who destroys the careers and reputations of her granddaughter's schoolteachers.
		The plot also incorporates a romance and a longstanding feud with a rival horse-racing family, but the highlight of the film is the climactic Derby race.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1938.htm (138 words)

	The Letter (Jean de Limur): Jeanne Eagels Herbert Marshall O.P. Heggie
		Related Films: Her Private Affair (1929), Indochine (1992), The Letter (1940), The Letter (TV, 1982), Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), Rain (1932), The Rains Came (1939), The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), The Road to Singapore (1931), Sadie Thompson (1928), Singapore Woman (1941), The Unfaithful (1947), White Mischief (1987), White Woman (1933)
		Even more static than many of the other talkies made at the dawn of the sound era, The Letter is a long (even at 61 minutes) filmed play with stage-trained actors who, with one exception, don’t know the difference between acting for the camera and acting for a theater audience.
		Yet, Jeanne Eagels remains the main reason for watching the 1929 version of The Letter, for her Leslie Crosbie is the only extant talking performance of the legendary stage actress whose tragic life would end with a drug overdose in October of that year.
	www.altfg.com /Reviews/Letter1929.htm (1063 words)

	Linda Darnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her 1940 film Star Dust was playing on television the night of the fire and Darnell fell asleep with a lit cigarette while watching it.
		She was widely tipped to win an Academy Award nomination for this part, but, when this did not happen, her career began to diminish and her film appearances were sporadic thereafter.
		Darnell played two roles that earned her respect as an actress: as Daphne De Carter in the Preston Sturges comedy Unfaithfully Yours, opposite Rex Harrison, and as one of the three wives in A Letter to Three Wives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linda_Darnell (467 words)

	Biography for Bette Davis
		She snagged Best Actress Oscar nominations five years in a row-for Jezebel (1938, which she won), Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), and Now, Voyager (1942)-then earned another in 1944 for Mr.
		By 1938, Bette received a second Academy nomination for her work in Jezebel (1938) in a film opposite the, soon to be, legendary Henry Fonda.
		She made many successful 40's films, but each picture was weaker than the last and by the time her Warner Brothers contract had ended in 1949 the movies were disappointing, such as the unintentionally hilarious Beyond the Forest (1949).
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000012/bio (467 words)

	1938 Oscar Winners
		Jezebel (AAN) was Davis's first film with William Wyler, who became one of her favorite directors; they worked together twice more, on The Letter (1940) and The Little Foxes (1941), both films earning Oscar nominations for director and actress.
		Her last film was The Children's Hour (1962), for which she earned another best supporting actress nomination by playing against type as the ruthless dowager who destroys the careers and reputations of her granddaughter's schoolteachers.
		The plot also incorporates a romance and a longstanding feud with a rival horse-racing family, but the highlight of the film is the climactic Derby race.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1938.htm (467 words)

	Letter
		The Letter The Letter is the name of two famous movies: The Letter (1929 movie) The Letter (1940 movie)...
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	Letter
		The Letter The Letter is the name of two famous movies: The Letter (1929 movie) The Letter (1940 movie)...
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		Letter from Birmingham Jail The Letter From Birmingham Jail was composed by April 12, 1963.
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	Letter, The - 1940 Drama Film-Noir Movie - Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
		Letter, The - 1940 Drama Film-Noir Movie - Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
		While her husband inspects his rubber planatation, Leslie Crosbie murders...
		I wish I could say I was sorry.
	www.moviefolio.com /movies/Letter_The_1940.cfm (1370 words)

	The Letter (1940)
		The Letter (1940) is a classic melodramatic film noir of murder and deceit, effectively directed by William Wyler.
		There, a woman holding a smoking pistol in her hand calculatedly follows her victim and shoots him a second time.
		Crosbie comforts her further: "My poor child...You did what every woman would have done in your place, only nine-tenths of them wouldn't have had the courage." Meanwhile, Withers and Howard have been led by the head boy into the shed where Hammond's body has been taken.
	www.filmsite.org /lett.html (2172 words)

	The Letter (1982) (TV)
		Trivia: Sarah Marshall was the daughter of Herbert Marshall, who had appeared in both the 1929 and 1940 film versions of the story.
		Summary: Excellent color remake of the Eagels/Davis classic films.
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	us.imdb.com /Title?0084243 (2172 words)

	Misc.Foreign_Letters
		Description: One letter, 1940, to Welsh playwright Jack Jones from film maker Penrose Tennyson, and two to Jones, 1944, from Charles Tennyson, concerning his book, Penrose Tennyson (1943).
		Description: Letter from Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, British officer and naval adviser to the Sultan of Turkey in 1867, to Edwin De Leon about new torpedoes.
		Description: Early transcription of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's letter to Charles Lamb on the murder of his mother by his sister, Mary Lamb, during a fit of insanity.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/m/Misc.Foreign_Letters (1646 words)

	Director
		Oliveira’s career blossomed in the mid-1970s after two decades of relative low productivity––he directed only three feature films between 1940 and the late 50s.
		Oliveira’s age is certainly the least interesting aspect of his current stand in the international film scene.
		Born in 1908, Manoel de Oliveira started his film career in 1931 with a silent-film documentary about the harsh life conditions of river-workers in his hometown Porto.
	www.kino.com /atalkingpicture/talk_director2.html (519 words)

	The Shop Around the Corner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Based on the Miklós László play Parfumerie, the film is about co-workers Klara (Margaret Sullavan) and Alfred (James Stewart) who hold an intense dislike for each other, while maintaining a secret letter-writing relationship, not realizing who is their secret pen-pal.
		The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 romantic comedy film starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
		The film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shop_Around_the_Corner (171 words)

	WhiteHouseTapes.org: About the Truman Tapes
		When Truman became president on April 12, 1945, he inherited the RCA Continuous-film Recording machine that Roosevelt used during the 1940 Presidential election campaign.
		When Harry S. Truman became president on April 12, 1945, he inherited the RCA Continuous-film Recording machine that Roosevelt used during the 1940 Presidential election campaign.
		Romagna stated in his letter to Zobrist that this was the single occasion during the Truman administration that Romagna operated the machine.
	www.whitehousetapes.org /pages/tapes_hst.htm (171 words)

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