Love Letters is a 1945 American romantic film noir directed by William Dieterle from a screenplay by Ayn Rand, based on the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise. The plot tells the story of a man falling in love with an amnesiac woman with two personalities, who is believed to have killed his soldier friend.
Alan Quinton, an American soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend, Roger Morland, a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." Alan has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her as a "pin-up girl of the spirit," to whom he can express feelings he has never expressed in person. He realizes that Victoria has fallen in love with the letters and is concerned that she will be disappointed by the real Roger, who abruptly leaves for paratrooper training in England (and to see Victoria when on leave) after Alan tells him this.
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Alan is subsequently injured on the Italian front and finds out that Roger is dead. He is having trouble readjusting to civilian life and spending time with his fiance, Helen Wentworth. He decides to live at his aunt's farm in Essex. In London, his brother takes him to a party at which he meets Dilly Carson and a woman who introduces herself as Singleton. He drunkenly tells them the story of the letters and falling in love with a woman he's never met, and Dilly realizes he is referring to Victoria. She tells Alan that a murder was committed and the letters were somehow involved.
Dilly recounts that one day, she found Roger stabbed to death in the country house on Longreach, but Victoria was completely unable to remember what happened, even though she was holding the murder weapon right beside him. After a trial during which she cannot remember anything, she is sent to a prison psychiatric hospital for a year and then released into the care of Dilly. Victoria never regained her memory, and continues to now live as Singleton, her original name as a foundling. Singleton believes that Alan is in love with Victoria, but does not realize Victoria is actually herself. Nevertheless, Alan and Singleton marry after he gets permission from her adoptive mother, Beatrice Remington. Their marriage is troubled, however, by Alan's love of who Singleton believes is another woman.
Beatrice returns to the farm and Singleton is drawn by her suppressed memories during a drive in the country to visit Longreach and the farm. Conversing with Beatrice, Singleton begins to remember the events of that fateful night: Victoria and an inebriated Roger argue as Victoria rereads the letters to remind herself of the man she loves and not the bitter man with her now. Roger reveals that he is not the one who wrote the letters, and he becomes abusive, striking her. Beatrice takes a knife and stabs him to death as Victoria tries to save the letters he had thrown into the fireplace.
Rand's screenplay adaptation of Massie's book was also influenced by Edmond Rostand's famous play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rand had admired the work since reading it in the original French in her youth. As in Rostand's play, the heroine falls in love with a soldier believing him to be the author of certain love letters that had been written for him by another soldier, including a moving note sent from the front. In Rand's version, a dimension of psychological mystery is added, and the heroine discovers the identity of the true author in time for the protagonists to experience a "happy ending."[1]
Hal Wallis had to borrow the services of Jones and Cotten from David O. Selznick who had both actors under personal contract (along with director William Dieterle). Cotten was Wallis' second choice, after his first choice, Gregory Peck, turned down the film for being too close to Spellbound. Wallis said Selznick was difficult to deal with and tried to exert control over the film.[2]
Ann Richards had recently been put under contract to Wallis. She and Barry Sullivan tested for the leads and for a moment it looked like they might play them but Wallis decided to cast more established stars. Richards was cast in the second female lead role.[3]
The musical score by Victor Young was nominated for an Oscar, and featured the melody of the hit song "Love Letters". The first notable release of the song, with lyrics by Edward Heyman, was by vocalist Dick Haymes whose recording peaked in popularity in September 1945.[4][5] The song has been recorded by numerous artists since 1945, including Ketty Lester, Alison Moyet, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, Jack Jones, Elton John, Del Shannon, and Sinad O'Connor, among others. The melody or song has been used in other films, including the David Lynch film Blue Velvet (1986), which features the Ketty Lester version.[6]
Although critical reviews were mostly negative, Love Letters succeeded at the box office.[1] New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther berated it as "sentimental twaddle", calling Jones' performance "fatuous", Rand's writing "a mucky muddle", and Dieterle's direction "mushy and pretentious".[7]
The romance of Camus and Casares is richer, if not sadder, when considered alongside the narratives of each of their work. There is an eerie doubling of life and art. Absurdity is the only certainty, and this is confirmed over and over again by coincidence and chance.
Afterward, Camus took over as editor in chief of Combat, the underground newspaper of the Resistance, and his wife gave birth to twins, Catherine and Jean. Meanwhile, the in-demand Casares was cast in two of her most memorable roles, as a long suffering wife in Les enfants du paradis and as a jilted lover in Les Dames du bois de Boulogne. Four years to the day after their first meeting, on June 6, 1948, Casares ran into Camus by chance on boulevard Saint-Germain. Their correspondence then continued uninterrupted for the next twelve years.
In the letters, desire is sustained through fragments, concentrated moments spent together mythologized during those apart. In their memories, those moments grow more elastic, more mythic than any day-to-day relationship could ever be.
Clara had given him a copy of 1001 Arabian Nights, so he copied this quote for her to entertain her. At the end of the month, Johannes wrote to Robert honestly about how much he admired and loved her:
After giving 20 concerts across Germany between Oct. 26-Dec. 20, Clara spent Christmas at home then set off for the Netherlands, her first foreign tour without her husband in 13 years. Johannes joined her there for a week. The day after his return to her house in Dsseldorf, he wrote her a letter full of longing and levity:
He adds a mournful melodic counterpoint exercise (which became the Adagio in his op. 36 sextet many years later) and hoped to start learning to write fugues. The next week, after news of Robert, he wrote:
Okay, thanks for the advice. Now how do I write my letter?
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