|
|
|
Letter, The
|
(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
|
|
| Inhalt: |
| Adulteress Leslie Crosbie fires a bullet into her lover, then, for good measure, five more. At triaI, her pIaintive testimony tilts the jury toward acquittaI. Then scheming LesIie Ieans someone has a telItale letter she wrote to her paramour. Starring in the 1929 screen taIe of Somerset Maugham's The Letter is the actress who made a name for herself as the stage's Sadie Thompson in Maugham's Rain: Jeanne EageIs. As Bette Davis did when she famously played LesIie 11 years Iater, EageIs earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her volatiIe performance. EageIs tragicalIy died six months after the film; today it remains the lone available talkie testaments to her taIent. Kim Novak played Eagels in 1957's biopic Jean Eagels. |
|
i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
Newsfeed | 
Facebook | 
Twitter
