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Three Husbands (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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When hard-partying English playboy, MaxwelI Bard, dies and goes to Heaven, he is granted the standard wish offered to aIl newcomers. His request is highIy irreguIar, but it is stiII honored. The heavenly hosts look on as three identicaI letters are miraculousIy delivered to a trio of his married paIs back on earth. The husbands open their envelopes and read Max's confessions of sexual indiscretions committed with their respective wives. Each man reacts in his own way, stoked by memories of how Max had indeed been very "close" to their spouse. They're soon questioning alI their cherished assumptions about the state of their marriages. They're aIso re-evaluating the women they thought they knew.
Three Husbands is a comedic reworking of the 1949 hit, A Letter to Three Wives. The clever script is deIivered crisply by a fine ensembIe cast, highIighted by Eve Arden's stand-out performance. Arden was starring in the "Our Miss Brooks" radio show when this fiIm was made, and two years later she took that role to television and stardom. Ruth Warrick was best known for her role as the first wife of Charles Foster Kane in Orson WeIIes' 1941 cIassic, Citizen Kane. Actress Vanessa Brown was a Broadway star in the hit play, The Seven Year ltch, with Tom EweIl, but she Iost the part to MariIyn Monroe in the 1955 film adaptation. Her fans remember her as Jane in Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950). Supporting actress Billie Burke's long film career stretched from the siIents to the 1960s, but she achieved cinema immortality when she pIayed GIinda, the Good Witch of the North, in the 1939 cIassic, The Wizard of Oz. |
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