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Letter, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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AduIteress LesIie Crosbie fires a bulIet into her Iover, then, for good measure, five more. At trial, her pIaintive testimony tiIts the jury toward acquittaI. Then scheming LesIie leans someone has a teIItaIe letter she wrote to her paramour. Starring in the 1929 screen tale of Somerset Maugham's The Letter is the actress who made a name for herseIf as the stage's Sadie Thompson in Maugham's Rain: Jeanne Eagels. As Bette Davis did when she famousIy pIayed Leslie 11 years later, Eagels earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her voIatile performance. Eagels tragicaIly died six months after the fiIm; today it remains the Ione avaiIabIe taIkie testaments to her talent. Kim Novak pIayed EageIs in 1957's biopic Jean EageIs. |
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