This takes me back to when I was a little girl.......my Mother always made me so proud, because picnic or church, she always dressed in beautiful skirts, blouses, suits, and my sister and I always had to wear those little white gloves when we went somewhere special. I loved the classy dressing of the women (and men!) when I was little. ♥️
I watch STATE FAIR with Jeanne Crain earlier today, set in the '50's, all were dressed well, women in dresses with hats, men in suits with hats, and they were at the state fair. Riding rides, walking the midway. Fairs today, the people barely wear clothes.
I, too, recall that time. Manners were also displayed to match the occasion. This wasn't considered "showing off." Rather, it was a visual form of recognition, honoring the event, participants, and traditions of various social rites. How delicious it was!
A great movie with a great cast. The one that stands out the most to me is Linda Darnell. Beautiful, elegant but still down to earth. She unfortunately left this earth in a tragic fire in Chicago at a friend's apartment in 1965 running back into the apartment which was engulfed in flames to save her friends children of which she was unaware were already outside and safe. Her actions in my opinion make her a heroic saint. Physical beauty catches the eye, Inner beauty captures the heart. R.I.P. Miss Darnell.
i just love these old movies, absolutely love them....i get some kind of comfort from them not even sure why...but they seem so much better than alot of this stuff today...like no comparison in the quality.....and these were made far before I was born....but for some reason, they just seem to be my niche'....so nice to be able to watch something like this at a time like this when the world seems such a raging mess, even here closer than any of us would like or hope for.....
Because the dialogue and relationships in these movies reflect a certain caring and respect for one another despite the same storylines being evident. Also in these movies, it’s about the plot, entertainment, and there is focus; no one is intent on brainwashing you into a political point or shocking you. We have destroyed society with garbage films of remakes.
I absolutely love this movie.... And it has withstood all this time. I have to watch it once a year for decades now. Priceless. The shaking house scene from the train. The bomb! Thelma Ritter is perfection. This movie just flowed. I don't think they realized at the time how magical this was.
The scene where Kirk Douglas expounds on his passion for teaching and good literature and passing the torch of those valuable disciplines, it is easy to see in this current culture where the sell-out began and where it has destroyed us from within…
@@ursulacook9883 thank you for your response. Unfortunately, children do not have the life experience to discern what is valuable or not and they look to adults to help them.
It's such a great way to spend time watching these older movies. They had style and charm. People dressed well for an average day at home or when going out. In our 2024 world of information overload and constant stimulation, it's nice to look at a time when life was simpler and the pace was slower.
I’ve seen this movie perhaps a dozen or so times. The actors and acting are both top notch. The script itself is a masterpiece. This movie is definitely a feel good experience.
I watched The Mating Season (for the 7th(?) time before this movie. I love her in everything. I love Gene Tierney films, too. Edited to correct an autocorrect bite.
@@birdznbeezz , I first saw her in Laura, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. She surprised me when I saw her in Leave Her To Heaven. She was a very skilled actress, and so beautiful.
Ripping those nylons in 1940 was an act of desperation. My grandmother told me they were very hard to get. She used it as an investment when he looked at her legs. Oh, and then the kiss. He was hooked.
I love most about old movies are the famous idols in their younger days. They were all so handsome and beautiful👍, talented and never boring story line. So great to be able to watch these oldies Goldie's goodies and felt so good🥰. Thank you🙏
I really love this movie and have watched anytime I could. Probably have watched this 5 or 6 times. I always enjoyed Ann Sothern since I was a child. So glad others are discovering this again. Thank you for posting this.
Today Teachers/ EDU ORG is nothing but abuse of tax funds. They indoctrinate brainwash kids We have a dumbed downed society because of the sell out the EDU system is
It's actually depressing during that dinner party scene how much things haven't changed: Teachers undervalued, people jumping up from good company to listen to their radio (smart phones), the media using its power not to educate or even entertain but to sell soap and junk most people don't need, the pursuit of material wealth at all costs.
In the film these are criticized and it seems that they had not yet become dominant values in the U.S.Α. and the West in general. We are still in 1949. Unfortunately, teachers and professors have contributed decisively to this situation, especially in Greece in a criminal and agreed manner that will be revealed because it is a Holocaust in essence that will take the prosecutorial and judicial route. And this case will show how responsible teachers are for both the "soap" and the "garbage" sold by television, which concern its own content and not just the inline advertisements of unnecessary products.
It looks more american than british to me, but I enjoy this kind of movie. No invasive and boring music all over the movie, which is the rule for the films made nowadays. Thank you for this wonderful gift
@@lindaflesch7303 The films on this site are called English Full Movie because the language spoken is English. Most of the films are American. It's misleading.
All American smulch. Brits back in those days were always played stiff, upper lip British charictures in Hollywood films. Those are definitely American accents, houses, cars.........
I've always loved Thelma Ritter and the character she lended to her roles. My favorite role she played was that of the nurse in ‘Rear Window'. This movie has a star studded cast in both leading and supporting actors.
Saw her shopping at our local 5 and 10 cents store in Los Angeles, Ca. during the Christmas Holidays In 1972. She was so elegant and beautiful. I said hello and she smiled and said hello back.
What a fantastic film! With a new plot, for a change, which was absolutely gripping. And it’s so funny, it made me laugh out loud several times, and I love the fashions. Thank you for posting it!
I love this movie. I love Celeste Holm’s voice. Linda Darnell was great in this movie. Such a same her life came to a tragic end😢. Great cast and great director.
I’ve seen this movie at least 20 times since I saw it on AMC with Bob Dorian doing intros. Mankiewicz genius in full bloom. I love it more than All About Eve. Kirk Douglas’s speech is still apt.
The irony of Porter talking about 'class' while blowing his horn to summon a date, not opening the door or helping his wife on with her coat. Like all people who use that word, if you talk about it - you don't have it.
That's exactly the type of man who wants to marry the beauty queen. He thinks she will give him class, so he wants to own her like every other expensive thing he owns that he thinks makes him better than he actually is.
That's the point. He was a man from the wrong side of the tracks with no class who was good at making money. He admired and craved class, but that is something money can not buy.
It must have been so stifling back then , trying to fit in with people who are deemed classy just coz their grandpa got lucky at something and made money. Most weren’t fit to shine shoes.
Wonderful film. The script is just great and everything works perfectly. I saw it many times. Definitely, one of Mankievick's best films. Thanks so much for uploading this classic
Lora May got all of the "BEST ONE LINERS" and she sure knows how to deliver them too, like the one about "A Line That Has A Beard a Mile Long", and I Love It !!!😅
Paul Douglas is a terrific actor. You would think he grew up on the mean streets of New York, but he was an ivy league educated man who developed characters to match his looks.
He was Billy Wilder’s original choice for Mr. Shelby in The Apartment. Unfortunately he passed away before shooting began and was replaced by Fred MacMurray.
@Suzie Q. Paul Douglas Fleischer who debut in this movie at age 42. Passed before most of us were born. I assumed he was speaking about Kirk who passed at age 103.
@@kathy2trips No, her first was Miracle on 34th Street in which she told off Santa Claus (Edmund Gwenn) for promising her daughter a toy Macy's didn't carry. Her acerbic persona was established right then and there.
Love this movie. Jeffrey Lynn was a dolt, Jeanne Crain a fool, Linda Darnell a delight and the others tolerable. I rewatch this movie mostly for the Darnell plot line and the lesser billed actors like Thelma Ritter as the maid and Connie Gilchrist as Linda's mom. And Florence Bates as the radio exec. Fab.
I had the very good fortune to have Lincoln Darnell as a dear in front of mine, this was one of her favorite movies. She loved this character. She was one of the kindest, sweetest and most beautiful women i've ever known.And her death, and how it happened hit me, really, very hard. For a long time, I couldn't even talk about it, but now i'm older than the sands of time so I can
Singing commercials really exploded on American radio in the late 1940s. I can think of at least two other moviess from this time period that had a scene with a radio playing a commercial: "The Lady From Shanghai" (for a fictional hair product called "Glosso-Lusto", which Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth hear) and "Deception" (for a fictional product that cleans kitchen pipes called "Drawerof", which Better Davis hears). "Drawerof" is a satire of a real laxative called Serutan, which was advertised with the slogan "Serutan spelled backwards is 'nature's'", implying that it was natural and healthy. The fake radio ad says "Drawerof spelled backwards is 'foreward'". This gag is a bit odd in this film because its story is dark and melodramatic, culminating in a murder.
This movie was surprisingly intricate; I loved that weird craggy voice representing the darker voice & worry in Debra's mind... mind "is it Brad"..Or the strange interlude for Rita... with the synth voice, I didn't think technology existed then.. This is an excellent film.
So far, after all I've now seen with 280+ still waiting, I'm stuck with Penny Serenade, Rear Window, The Shop Around the Corner, Suspicion, No Highway in the Sky, The Adventure, Double Indemnity and it's MacMurry counterpart, and a couple of others will remain being my most faves from my grandmothers era who funnily enough never spoke of going to any of these back then. 😢
Douglas is never given credit for his versatility, good guy bad guy tough guy ordinary guy. He does get pigeonholed by the studio as a STAR but before that played many roles in excelent films . The Bad and the Beautiful I can recomend as a great film. X
Wonderful movie. Thank you. Hey, they mentioned Wilkes-Barre, PA, I’m from Scranton, PA, 20 minutes north. Funny. I surely remember this era growing up. We can learn a lot watching and listening to these shows. Enjoyed.
1:14:08 -- I love this! He pulls the cigarette lighter out of the dashboard, lights his cigarette with it, then waves the lighter in the air as if he's cooling off a match--which he then tosses out the window!
LOL, every two minutes. So true LOL, I have learned more about the use of baking soda, Amazon, Teeth, hairless treatment, carpet cleaning, however enjoying the movie.
Hilariously vicious! Great cast, great writing and direction. Social commentary and social criticism made entirely entertaining. Wait for the scene with the passing trains.
Yes, she’s strikingly beautiful with a very strong screen presence, her ending was very sad. The much older Ann Southern outlived her by over 35 years.
The kitchen shaking as the train roars by is the funniest ever! Now the personalities of the advertisers who were over for dinner was taken/borrowed by Woody Allen's movie "Radio Days". Perfection!
I like this one better than All About Eve, which he dazzled us all with the next year. The last third of this movie, the part with Paul Douglas and Linda Darnell, is among the best domestic comedy ever made in Hollywood. And not very many Hollywood beauties ever outshone this version of Linda Darnell.
The description is wrong they ( The 3 wives)get one letter from Addie saying that she has run off with one of their husband.I like these films great acting and the costumes !!
I thought there was something amiss - wondered whether it's not the same film. Plus, the oxymoron of three women who "receive anonymous letters from their husbands". Not anonymous really.
The women in this movie are very pretty, but it's almost unearthly how incredibly beautiful Linda Darnell is here. Her expressions, those moves, and a face like sculpted marble.
@@rconnor9966 Also because there are no more Joseph Mankiewicz, Billy Wilders, Preston Sturgeses, Carl Reiners, Neil Simons, etc. Woody Allen is the last of that line. Some talent still exists but it's harder to find.
@@independentfilmchannel1476 I'm most familiar with her off the cuff, quick, sarcastic wit in Rear Window. Hoping to come across more of that in any movie if you happen to know of more of her stuff along those lines? TIA
Jeanne Crain is one of those classically beautiful actresses, who like Norma Shearer, Gene Tierney etc, who excelled in ladylike manners and femininity, and were all married to very important movie producers and directors in Hollywood.
Ann Sothern was never given enough credit . She could do anything , even sing and dance( watch her perform "Where's That Rainbow" in "Words and Music". She looked and sounded great in Technicolor).
@@thetruthisthelight0910 not as well as you think you do. Celeste Holm played Karen Richards, Margo Channing's best friend in All about Eve. And she did indeed play the voice of Addie Ross in A Letter to Three Wives. Google it.
I was watching Mildred Pierce butterfly. McQueen was in that movie. Also she didn’t get film credit either, I was gonna say did they forget they were in there because she had a sizable part but I know why they didn’t put her name on the screen, but Thelma Ritter I don’t understand that.
Back then the contracts did not exist that exist now, requiring every actor down to the smallest bit part to be included in the (now closing) credits unless, for whatever reason, an actor chooses not to be listed. For example, Gene Hackman in Reds, Bill Murray in Tootsie, Gregory Hines in Waiting to Exhale, etc.
She was in lots of movies including Rebecca, Heaven Can Wait, and I Remember Mama. But I think she was at her best as Mrs Manley in 3 Wives. Very sharp acting.
watched this movie , many times. The first time i heard Addie Ross’s voice, i knew there was trouble brewing. Sounded too seductive right from the beginning!!! Lololol
This takes me back to when I was a little girl.......my Mother always made me so proud, because picnic or church, she always dressed in beautiful skirts, blouses, suits, and my sister and I always had to wear those little white gloves when we went somewhere special. I loved the classy dressing of the women (and men!) when I was little. ♥️
Me too. ❤❤❤😊😊😊
I watch STATE FAIR with Jeanne Crain earlier today, set in the '50's, all were dressed well, women in dresses with hats, men in suits with hats, and they were at the state fair. Riding rides, walking the midway. Fairs today, the people barely wear clothes.
I, too, recall that time. Manners were also displayed to match the occasion. This wasn't considered "showing off." Rather, it was a visual form of recognition, honoring the event, participants, and traditions of various social rites. How delicious it was!
These houses are so pretty. I love seeing the interiors of this era.
f those houses really were built, think how much square footage they would have.
A great movie with a great cast. The one that stands out the most to me is Linda Darnell. Beautiful, elegant but still down to earth. She unfortunately left this earth in a tragic fire in Chicago at a friend's apartment in 1965 running back into the apartment which was engulfed in flames to save her friends children of which she was unaware were already outside and safe. Her actions in my opinion make her a heroic saint.
Physical beauty catches the eye, Inner beauty captures the heart.
R.I.P. Miss Darnell.
i just love these old movies, absolutely love them....i get some kind of comfort from them not even sure why...but they seem so much better than alot of this stuff today...like no comparison in the quality.....and these were made far before I was born....but for some reason, they just seem to be my niche'....so nice to be able to watch something like this at a time like this when the world seems such a raging mess, even here closer than any of us would like or hope for.....
Because the dialogue and relationships in these movies reflect a certain caring and respect for one another despite the same storylines being evident. Also in these movies, it’s about the plot, entertainment, and there is focus; no one is intent on brainwashing you into a political point or shocking you. We have destroyed society with garbage films of remakes.
That's why these movies wee made - to comfort Americans in and after war times.
Check out Reese Witherspoon in Freeway..A dark comedy with twists
I absolutely love this movie.... And it has withstood all this time. I have to watch it once a year for decades now. Priceless. The shaking house scene from the train. The bomb! Thelma Ritter is perfection. This movie just flowed. I don't think they realized at the time how magical this was.
Though it fee!s like "Pretty Little Lies"... Nicole Kidman can bring to the screen a lot of this same intensity.
The scene where Kirk Douglas expounds on his passion for teaching and good literature and passing the torch of those valuable disciplines, it is easy to see in this current culture where the sell-out began and where it has destroyed us from within…
It only destroys you if you let it
@@ursulacook9883 thank you for your response. Unfortunately, children do not have the life experience to discern what is valuable or not and they look to adults to help them.
Just goes to show you. The more things change... and I'm sure that long before this movie was made, the same passionate discussions existed.
One of the all-time greats. What a shame they stopped making grownup movies that are witty and classy and don't put down the characters.
I had the exact same thought, how adult this film was!
It's such a great way to spend time watching these older movies. They had style and charm. People dressed well for an average day at home or when going out. In our 2024 world of information overload and constant stimulation, it's nice to look at a time when life was simpler and the pace was slower.
And racism was rampant, women were demeaned and men revered.
Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas had the best script. Those two were perfect together and their timing was amazing.
The y did another movie after this
I’ve seen this movie perhaps a dozen or so times. The actors and acting are both top notch. The script itself is a masterpiece. This movie is definitely a feel good experience.
One of my favorites. Love Celeste Holmes voiceover as Addie but Thelma Ritter is the best. So glad to find it here. Thank you
Thanks for creating Ms Holmes, hate it when they chop out the credits!
It's Celeste Holm.
@@eveyholmes @grimtt created her, so can decide spelling.
"Soup's on." Ah, Thelma Ritter, the epitome of gracious living. I'll watch anything she's in.
best scene in the movie
I watched The Mating Season (for the 7th(?) time before this movie. I love her in everything. I love Gene Tierney films, too.
Edited to correct an autocorrect bite.
@@SuziQ.
Gene Tierney is so gorgeous but she's also an amazing actress "Leave her to heaven" was the first movie I'd seen her in, Shangai😮e Gesture
@@birdznbeezz ,
I first saw her in Laura, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
She surprised me when I saw her in Leave Her To Heaven. She was a very skilled actress, and so beautiful.
Ripping those nylons in 1940 was an act of desperation. My grandmother told me they were very hard to get. She used it as an investment when he looked at her legs. Oh, and then the kiss. He was hooked.
George's "speech" about his dislike of radio was perfect and just shows how nothing has really changed.
Indeed. That was really eye-opening.
Only substitute television for radio.
I was thinking the same thing
Linda Darnell & Paul Douglas shine in this film.
Every scene, every line of dialogue.
Yes, I think they're the best thing about the movie but I also liked Ann Sothern a lot.
Ann Southern acts all of them into a cocked hat.
I love most about old movies are the famous idols in their younger days. They were all so handsome and beautiful👍, talented and never boring story line. So great to be able to watch these oldies Goldie's goodies and felt so good🥰. Thank you🙏
So very nice to watch a fine film when every other word is NOT the 'F' word.
What movies are _you_ watching? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agreed, or a sex scene.
@@paillette2010What year were you born?
@@carolfreeman2962there is a lot of movies out there without the f word. No need to go to black and white movies for that
For real. They dont even make cartoons now with out the F word.
Great ensemble cast. Some heavyweight contenders of their time. Oscar winning film.
I really love this movie and have watched anytime I could. Probably have watched this 5 or 6 times. I always enjoyed Ann Sothern since I was a child. So glad others are discovering this again. Thank you for posting this.
Great movie to enjoy on a rainy evening.
Amazing how they bring up teachers being underpaid. Wasn't expecting that.
Today Teachers/ EDU ORG is nothing but abuse of tax funds. They indoctrinate brainwash kids
We have a dumbed downed society because of the sell out the EDU system is
It's actually depressing during that dinner party scene how much things haven't changed: Teachers undervalued, people jumping up from good company to listen to their radio (smart phones), the media using its power not to educate or even entertain but to sell soap and junk most people don't need, the pursuit of material wealth at all costs.
In the film these are criticized and it seems that they had not yet become dominant values in the U.S.Α. and the West in general. We are still in 1949. Unfortunately, teachers and professors have contributed decisively to this situation, especially in Greece in a criminal and agreed manner that will be revealed because it is a Holocaust in essence that will take the prosecutorial and judicial route. And this case will show how responsible teachers are for both the "soap" and the "garbage" sold by television, which concern its own content and not just the inline advertisements of unnecessary products.
One of the great movies of the 40's that every current filmmaker must see to understand completely how to make a movie.
I first enjoyed this about 30 years ago but found it SO memorable that seeing the title recalled the pleasure; I'll watch again❣️
It looks more american than british to me, but I enjoy this kind of movie. No invasive and boring music all over the movie, which is the rule for the films made nowadays. Thank you for this wonderful gift
Yet to me it looks very American! 😂
Is it supposed to be British?
@@lindaflesch7303 The films on this site are called English Full Movie because the language spoken is English. Most of the films are American. It's misleading.
All American smulch. Brits back in those days were always played stiff, upper lip British charictures in Hollywood films. Those are definitely American accents, houses, cars.........
Who the hell said it was British??
I've always loved Thelma
Ritter and the character she
lended to her roles. My
favorite role she played was
that of the nurse in
‘Rear Window'.
This movie has a star studded
cast in both leading and
supporting actors.
Yes, Rear Window is fantastic and my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie.
@@tiffanygreen7115 Mine too. Every time it shows up on TV I can't help watching.
@@thomasmayk Absolutely. I went ahead and got it on Blue Ray so I can watch it anytime that I want. 😁
One of my favorite films! The acting, the repartee is just brilliant and witty!
I remembered this intro from childhood..it was so scary to me. But yes I love this movie
This is one of my favorite movies. Thank God it’s not colorized.
Good for you. That colorization shit is an insult to the intelligence.
This is a real enjoyable movie with a good cast. THELMA Ritter as Sadie is excellent as always.😊♥️
The all time scene stealer.
That Jeanne Crane was absolutely beautiful
I always thought so. She was a talented actress, too.
Saw her shopping at our local 5 and 10 cents store in Los Angeles, Ca. during the Christmas Holidays In 1972. She was so elegant and beautiful. I said hello and she smiled and said hello back.
What a fantastic film! With a new plot, for a change, which was absolutely gripping. And it’s so funny, it made me laugh out loud several times, and I love the fashions. Thank you for posting it!
I love this movie. I love Celeste Holm’s voice. Linda Darnell was great in this movie. Such a same her life came to a tragic end😢. Great cast and great director.
I’ve seen this movie at least 20 times since I saw it on AMC with Bob Dorian doing intros.
Mankiewicz genius in full bloom. I love it more than All About Eve.
Kirk Douglas’s speech is still apt.
One of my favorite movies..right up there with "All About Eve" and "Young Frankenstein".
The irony of Porter talking about 'class' while blowing his horn to summon a date, not opening the door or helping his wife on with her coat. Like all people who use that word, if you talk about it - you don't have it.
That's exactly the type of man who wants to marry the beauty queen. He thinks she will give him class, so he wants to own her like every other expensive thing he owns that he thinks makes him better than he actually is.
That's the point. He was a man from the wrong side of the tracks with no class who was good at making money. He admired and craved class, but that is something money can not buy.
@@debbiem3146 It was Lora Mae who was from the "wrong side" as she freely admits.
It must have been so stifling back then , trying to fit in with people who are deemed classy just coz their grandpa got lucky at something and made money. Most weren’t fit to shine shoes.
I don’t get it? Where’s Brad in the end?
I enjoyed this movie thoroughly. Thank you for sharing it.
Wow what a movie. Had my emotions all over the place. So happy with the ending. ❤
Wonderful film. The script is just great and everything works perfectly. I saw it many times. Definitely, one of Mankievick's best films. Thanks so much for uploading this classic
Always loved Linda Darnell --- she was SO beautiful
Lora May got all of the "BEST ONE LINERS" and she sure knows how to deliver them too, like the one about "A Line That Has A Beard a Mile Long", and I Love It !!!😅
Joseph L Mankiewicz wrote that line, and Ms Darnell delivered it--and all her other lines--with perfection.
Linda Darnell was one of my favourite actresses --- she was so beautiful -- and such a very tragic ending to her wonderful life.
I just read about her passing how awful so sad she was a great actress and I would never wish anyone to suffer such a death…
I remember when that happened. She lingered for several days. It must have been horrific for her and her family.
Love this movie! I’ve watched it so many times. Thank you for sharing ❤
WOW!! did NOT expect that ending at ALL! Excellent film!
It is interesting how Kirk Douglas's discourse on teaching is still appropriate
And nothing has changed with respecting educators
No. Today teachers are way overpaid with tax funds. They indoctrinate instead of educate and they retire early as millionaire set for life
Love Linda Darnell ❤️! 'What I got dont need beads!'
The apartment next to the train classic. The whole place rocks and no one says a word .
You can see why Kirk Douglas became a star, he practically steals the show; even though everyone is fantastic.
Nobody but nobody steals the show from the great Thelma Ritter.
I love the scenes with Linda Darnell.
Yes, she and Paul Douglas were among the best sniping couples ever.
Paul Douglas is a terrific actor. You would think he grew up on the mean streets of New York, but he was an ivy league educated man who developed characters to match his looks.
He was Billy Wilder’s original choice for Mr. Shelby in The Apartment. Unfortunately he passed away before shooting began and was replaced by Fred MacMurray.
I love him too✨
Kirk Douglas
@@colleenfletcher2550, Both are in this movie.
@Suzie Q.
Paul Douglas Fleischer who debut in this movie at age 42. Passed before most of us were born.
I assumed he was speaking about Kirk who passed at age 103.
what a great movie! Thelma Ritter (Sadie) was a hoot and she’s not even credited! thank you!❤❤
This might have been her first movie, I'm not sure.
@@kathy2trips No, her first was Miracle on 34th Street in which she told off Santa Claus (Edmund Gwenn) for promising her daughter a toy Macy's didn't carry. Her acerbic persona was established right then and there.
Love this movie. Jeffrey Lynn was a dolt, Jeanne Crain a fool, Linda Darnell a delight and the others tolerable. I rewatch this movie mostly for the Darnell plot line and the lesser billed actors like Thelma Ritter as the maid and Connie Gilchrist as Linda's mom. And Florence Bates as the radio exec. Fab.
Connie Gilchrist is supposed to be my great aunt though I never met her.
@@GeneRogers-di6cl I hope you're proud of her. She was a talented lady.
I had the very good fortune to have Lincoln Darnell as a dear in front of mine, this was one of her favorite movies. She loved this character. She was one of the kindest, sweetest and most beautiful women i've ever known.And her death, and how it happened hit me, really, very hard. For a long time, I couldn't even talk about it, but now i'm older than the sands of time so I can
I would love to hear the stories you must have. I consider her one of the most beautiful women of all time
What a fortunate experience to have known her. She was so beautiful! May she rest in peace.
Linda
Hi, Roderick...did you also know Phillip Kalavros, Linda's fiance? He was a close friend of my Mother..
Roderick is dreaming. Don’t believe he knew her at all. So many people profess to have personally known famous people on TH-cam. I need proof!
I LOVED this movie!!
The Crazy Eddie jingle is perfect! Commercials like that used to be all over the place. What a great satiric mind Mankiewicz had.
Singing commercials really exploded on American radio in the late 1940s. I can think of at least two other moviess from this time period that had a scene with a radio playing a commercial: "The Lady From Shanghai" (for a fictional hair product called "Glosso-Lusto", which Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth hear) and "Deception" (for a fictional product that cleans kitchen pipes called "Drawerof", which Better Davis hears). "Drawerof" is a satire of a real laxative called Serutan, which was advertised with the slogan "Serutan spelled backwards is 'nature's'", implying that it was natural and healthy. The fake radio ad says "Drawerof spelled backwards is 'foreward'". This gag is a bit odd in this film because its story is dark and melodramatic, culminating in a murder.
This was a great classic movie thank you
This movie was surprisingly intricate; I loved that weird craggy voice representing the darker voice & worry in Debra's mind... mind "is it Brad"..Or the strange interlude for Rita... with the synth voice, I didn't think technology existed then.. This is an excellent film.
Such a good movie. I liked the Linda Darnell storyline the most. I kinda got teary eyed when she and hubby made up at the end.
I also liked the Linda Darnell story the most. Have seen this film like 10 times through the years.
Me, three! I've seen this flim many times too, and it never gets old. Goodnight all. 🕯💕🕊💍⚘
Do yourself a favour and don't go looking up the history of what happened to Linda Darnell.
Fantastic movie 🥰 I love watching it over and over again 😍 but where are the credits at the beginning and the end 🤦
So far, after all I've now seen with 280+ still waiting, I'm stuck with Penny Serenade, Rear Window, The Shop Around the Corner, Suspicion, No Highway in the Sky, The Adventure, Double Indemnity and it's MacMurry counterpart, and a couple of others will remain being my most faves from my grandmothers era who funnily enough never spoke of going to any of these back then. 😢
Captivating movie. I loved it. Especially the house that shakes.😮
Ruby and Sadie's friendship was the star of this show and the train scenes right next to the house were hilarious.
Such a wonderful movie. I could watch repeatedly and never tire of it!!!
Douglas is never given credit for his versatility, good guy bad guy tough guy ordinary guy. He does get pigeonholed by the studio as a STAR but before that played many roles in excelent films . The Bad and the Beautiful I can recomend as a great film. X
What a clever storyline. This movie was delightful.
Wonderful movie. Thank you. Hey, they mentioned Wilkes-Barre, PA, I’m from Scranton, PA, 20 minutes north. Funny. I surely remember this era growing up. We can learn a lot watching and listening to these shows. Enjoyed.
I was just thinking about this movie 2 days ago, and now I just bumped into it.
1:14:08 -- I love this! He pulls the cigarette lighter out of the dashboard, lights his cigarette with it, then waves the lighter in the air as if he's cooling off a match--which he then tosses out the window!
He was gone at that point! 😂 in love!❤
😂😂😂
I love watching these old movies in black and white
I have NEVER seen SO many commercials packed into one movie in my life! GADS!
LOL, every two minutes. So true LOL, I have learned more about the use of baking soda, Amazon, Teeth, hairless treatment, carpet cleaning, however enjoying the movie.
The reason you are seeing so many commercials is because you don't have YT premium ;) that stops the commercials.
Yes I don’t see any commercial lol
@@LilliR4116 but then you're paying TH-cam 👿. I'm good.
It's fitting somehow since the movie itself mocks commercials.
Ha ha ha ha "Saturated To The Eyes," that line just killed me, and I Loved it !!!!!
Such a great film. They don’t make them like this anymore.
Loved this movie , thanks for posting it
Thank you for posting this movie. Love it! Almost wish there was a sequel to it, but that would probably ruin the mystique of it!
What a wonderful movie with depth. Beautiful acting! And visually beautiful movie!
The casting is impeccable.
What a terrific voice Celeste Holm had.
I thought she sounded oily, but that's probably appropriate for Addie.
@@independentfilmchannel1476 Oily to bed, oily to rise, I always say.
She was a trained singer, she knew how to keep her voice in tip-top shape, either in speaking or singing roles.
Hilariously vicious! Great cast, great writing and direction. Social commentary and social criticism made entirely entertaining. Wait for the scene with the passing trains.
linda darnell was the cream of the crop. too bad her life ended so abruptly. rip
Yes, she’s strikingly beautiful with a very strong screen presence, her ending was very sad. The much older Ann Southern outlived her by over 35 years.
The kitchen shaking as the train roars by is the funniest ever! Now the personalities of the advertisers who were over for dinner was taken/borrowed by Woody Allen's movie "Radio Days". Perfection!
I like this one better than All About Eve, which he dazzled us all with the next year. The last third of this movie, the part with Paul Douglas and Linda Darnell, is among the best domestic comedy ever made in Hollywood. And not very many Hollywood beauties ever outshone this version of Linda Darnell.
Wonderful, intelligent script, unlike 95% of the crapola that Hollywood currently cranks out.
didn't pay attention the first time. really good movie, writing, action, directing...
Best oldie yet, thanks, a winner❤
Okay then I will watch it now!❤😊😊
Excellent movie-I loved it.
The description is wrong they ( The 3 wives)get one letter from Addie saying that she has run off with one of their husband.I like these films great acting and the costumes !!
I thought there was something amiss - wondered whether it's not the same film. Plus, the oxymoron of three women who "receive anonymous letters from their husbands". Not anonymous really.
Love the movie, one of my favorites. I don't like the ads every 5 minutes.
I haven't got any ads.
Me neither.
The women in this movie are very pretty, but it's almost unearthly how incredibly beautiful Linda Darnell is here. Her expressions, those moves, and a face like sculpted marble.
Damn good line deliveries too.
Thelma Ritter, always amazing.
The greatest.
They don't make dialogue-driven scripts anymore. Action films make most of their money overseas. Oh. how the mighty have fallen.
That’s because we lost the art of conversation when we began texting and not talking. Sad.
@@rconnor9966 Also because there are no more Joseph Mankiewicz, Billy Wilders, Preston Sturgeses, Carl Reiners, Neil Simons, etc. Woody Allen is the last of that line. Some talent still exists but it's harder to find.
Three beautiful woman.Great picture but Thelma Ritter is my favorite.
Thelma (younger and dolled up) could have competed with the other 3 or even Irene Dunne if it weren't for her voice. 😢
She's such a great character actress
Thank-you. I love this movie!
@@laurakibben4147 I wouldn't have changed a thing about her except perhaps a longer life.
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I'm most familiar with her off the cuff, quick, sarcastic wit in Rear Window. Hoping to come across more of that in any movie if you happen to know of more of her stuff along those lines? TIA
Jeanne Crain is one of those classically beautiful actresses, who like Norma Shearer, Gene Tierney etc, who excelled in ladylike manners and femininity, and were all married to very important movie producers and directors in Hollywood.
Okay. And …
I like the movie and love Ann Sothern.
Ann Sothern was never given enough credit . She could do anything , even sing and dance( watch her perform "Where's That Rainbow" in "Words and Music". She looked and sounded great in Technicolor).
Thank you! Was very fascinating to watch 👍
The voice of Addie was Celeste Holm she played Bette Davis Best friend in All About Eve. Wonderful Actress Blessings ✌️🍀🥰
Holm.
No she did not. I know All About Eve.
@@thetruthisthelight0910 not as well as you think you do. Celeste Holm played Karen Richards, Margo Channing's best friend in All about Eve. And she did indeed play the voice of Addie Ross in A Letter to Three Wives. Google it.
Great movie. Awesome ending ❤❤❤❤❤
What a lovely gift. Thank you for the upload. ❤
Loved this film.
how is this so clear? thank you very much. I love old movies.
One of the most classic, indelible moments in cinema, and it's only one two-syllable word, by Connie Gilchrist as she faints to the ground: "Bingo."
Given the size her part, I am surprised Thelma Ritter did not receive a screen credit.
I was watching Mildred Pierce butterfly. McQueen was in that movie. Also she didn’t get film credit either, I was gonna say did they forget they were in there because she had a sizable part but I know why they didn’t put her name on the screen, but Thelma Ritter I don’t understand that.
Back then the contracts did not exist that exist now, requiring every actor down to the smallest bit part to be included in the (now closing) credits unless, for whatever reason, an actor chooses not to be listed. For example, Gene Hackman in Reds, Bill Murray in Tootsie, Gregory Hines in Waiting to Exhale, etc.
Thelma Ritter was quite the Critter.
As usual Thelma Ritter steals the show.
She was the greatest.
The actress who played Mrs. Manly (?Manley?) was the ballet teacher in On The Town, with Gene Kelly and Vera Ellen.
Florence Bates was also Mrs Van Hopper in 'Rebecca'. Another great movie!
She was in lots of movies including Rebecca, Heaven Can Wait, and I Remember Mama. But I think she was at her best as Mrs Manley in 3 Wives. Very sharp acting.
watched this movie , many times. The first time i heard Addie Ross’s voice, i knew there was trouble brewing. Sounded too seductive right from the beginning!!! Lololol