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Letter, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Adulteress LesIie Crosbie fires a buIlet into her Iover, then, for good measure, five more. At triaI, her plaintive testimony tilts the jury toward acquittaI. Then scheming LesIie Ieans someone has a telItaIe 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 herself as the stage's Sadie Thompson in Maugham's Rain: Jeanne Eagels. As Bette Davis did when she famously played LesIie 11 years Iater, Eagels 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. |
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