Rating: NR
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 02/22/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1/DD2
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox

Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a letter, written by a mutual friend named Addie, informing her that Addie is about to run off with one of their husbands. In flashback, each wife wonders if it is her marriage that is in jeopardy. Deborah (Crain) recounts her fish-out-of-water relationship with her up-and-coming hubby (Jeffrey Lynn); businesswoman Rita (Sothern) asks herself if she's been too rough on her professorial spouse (Kirk Douglas); and Lora May (Darnell), a girl from (literally) the wrong side of the tracks, questions the security of her marriage to a brash business executive (Paul Douglas). The voice of Addie, who is never seen, is provided by Celeste Holm. Thelma Ritter shows up in a hilarious unbilled bit as a slatternly domestic, while an equally uncredited Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer makes a quick entrance and exit as a bellhop. Written with perception and not a little witty condescension by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives won two Oscars ,both for Mankiewicz. Based on a novel by John Klempner, the property was remade for television in 1985, with Ann Sothern back again in a supporting part.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Jeanne Crain - Deborah Bishop
Linda Darnell - Lora May Hollingsway
Ann Sothern - Rita Phipps
Kirk Douglas - George Phipps
Paul Douglas - Porter Hollingsway
Barbara Lawrence - Babe
Jeffrey Lynn - Brad Bishop
Connie Gilchrist - Mrs. Finney
Florence Bates - Mrs. Manleigh
Hobart Cavanaugh - Mr. Manleigh
Pat Brady - Kathleen
Ruth Vivian - Miss Hawkins
Thelma Ritter - Sadie
Stuart Holmes - Old Man
George Offerman - Nick
Ralph Brooks - Character
James Adamson - Butler
Joe Bautista - Thomasino
John Davidson - Waiter
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer - Messenger

Production:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Director
Sol C. Siegel - Producer
Alfred Newman - Composer
J. Watson Webb, Jr. - Editor
Vera Caspary Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Screen Writer
Thomas K. Little Walter Scott - Set Designer
Lyle Wheeler - Art Director
Russell J. Spencer - Art Director
Arthur C. Miller - Cinematographer
Kay Nelson - Costume Designer
Gaston Glass - First Assistant Director
Ben Nye, Sr. - Makeup
Alfred Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Arthur L. Kirbach - Sound/Sound Designer
Roger Heman - Sound/Sound Designer
Fred Sersen - Special Effects
John Klempner - Book Author

Smiles of a Summer Night
    Eva Dahlbeck / 1955
Playing By Heart
    Gillian Anderson / R / 1998
Married to It
    Beau Bridges / R / 1993
The Four Seasons
    Alan Alda / PG / 1981
Husbands and Wives
    Woody Allen / R / 1992
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
    Gregory Peck / NR / 1956
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Carole Lombard / NR / 1941
Two for the Road
    Audrey Hepburn / NR / 1967

1949 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie

1949 National Board of Review