Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-02-07 | Page 10 | Smart Comedy to be Here Soon

A A LETTER TO THREE WIVES WIVES' WIVES WIVES' Smart C Comedy medy to Be Here Soon The Hollywood grapevine has been buzzing for months about an hilarious new comedy which is said sald to boast one of the most unusual unusual unusual un un- usual story ideas yet put on film Entitled A Letter to Three Wives Vives the Twentieth Century- Century Fox comedy has an star all cast with Jeanne Crain Grain Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern in the title roles They play the wives respectively w of Jeffre Jeffrey Lynn Broadway star Paul Douglas in his first film role and Kirk Douglas The immediate action of the in intricate intricate in- in yet wholly entertaining stor story of or A Letter to Three Thre e I Wives Vives takes place in a single day daJ when the three girls leave on ona ona ona a picnic excursion with the unsettling unsettling unsettling un un- their settling news that Addle towns town's most attractive unattached female has left town with one of their husbands Though Addie Addle is never shown In the picture her taunting voice oice rings in the ears of each wife as she searches her marriage marriage marriage mar mar- convinced that her own husband husband husband hus hus- band has good reason to leave her Suspense and sympathy for the romantic problems in marriage builds to the pictures picture's many laugh- laugh packed surprises as the story un un- folds It isn't until the last 60 seconds of the picture that the answer er is revealed Filmed in both Hollywood and New York Director Joseph L. L Mankiewicz who also did the sparkling screen play used such eastern locales as Mahopac historic historic historic his his- Cold Spring and Hook Mountain Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- tain so that all outdoor scenes would be faithful reproductions of the actual suburban setting of the unusual story is told through flashbacks Barbara Lawrence who is seen as Linda Darnell's younger sister is also starred tarred in the film which includes Connie Gilchrist Florence Florence Florence Flor I ence Bates and Hobart Cavanaugh Sol Sot C C. Siegel produced the picture picture picture pic pic- ture which was adapted by Vera Caspary from a Cosmopolitan Magazine novel by John Klempner