Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Turner Classic Movies

Original Film Title LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN. English Title LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN


A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.Directed by Max OphülsScreenplay.

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Take Letter from an Unknown Woman, made by Max Ophüls in 1948, and now brought back in lustrous restoration by the BFI. You should see it, of course, just because it is Ophüls, because John.

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Golden Age Hollywood romance doesn't get much better than Letter From an Unknown Woman, a powerful tale of doomed love. In early 20th-century Vienna, Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan) is about to leave.

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In Vienna about 1900, the decadent pianist and wolf Stefan Brand is challenged for a duel by a deceived husband. He arrives in his apartment and tells his dumb butler John that he intends to leave Vienna to avoid the scheduled duel, and John delivers a letter from an unknown woman to him. He reads the letter written by his former neighbor Lisa.

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Letter to an Unknown Woman was the last film of Austrian-born actress Mady Christians (1900-1951). The film featured a musical interlude by Franz Liszt, an excerpt from Mozart's The Magic Flute and several Viennese waltzes.

Letter From an Unknown Woman


He died in 1957, and until this Criterion Collection edition, the shimmering Letter from an Unknown Woman has been available only in chopped-up, wee-hour TV slots. Charles Dennis is an actor, playwright, and author of two books on Hollywood, Talent and The Dealmakers. His new play, A High Class Sort of Heel, is based on the life of George Sanders.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman is a 1948 American drama romance film released by Universal-International and directed by Max Ophüls (listed as Max Opuls in the opening credits sequence). It was based on the 1922 novella of the same name by Stefan Zweig.The film stars Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, and Marcel Journet (actor) [].. In 1992, Letter from an Unknown Woman was selected.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)


Letter from an Unknown Woman. Classic melodrama in which a young woman falls in love with a concert pianist, beginning a lifelong infatuation. Letter from an Unknown Woman (83 mins)

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Directed by. Max Ophüls. United States, 1948. Drama, Romance. 86. Synopsis. In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning to leave Vienna to avoid a duel. His servant gives him a letter from an unknown woman.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)


"Letter from an Unknown Woman" is an operatic opus to love that resounds through all the ages and souls of the amorous. Joan Fontaine stars in the second American feature by German director Max Ophüls. The film was devised as vehicle for Fontaine by her husband, who had stood up an entire studio just to churn out movies to feature his wife

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A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past. Stefan Zweig. Author, Novel. Max Ophüls. Director. Howard Koch. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on December 19, 2013.

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T he rerelease of Max Ophüls's 1948 classic Letter from an Unknown Woman provides a luxurious swathe of emotion. Based on a 1922 novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig - whose own.

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Endnotes. On the subject of Stefan's conversion by the end of the film and its representation of a man's journey into Symbolic Order, and thus into History, see Tania Modleski, "Time and Desire in the Woman's Film", Letter From an Unknown Woman, ed. Virginia Wright-Wexman and Karen Hollinger, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1986, pp. 249-262.

Original Film Title LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN. English Title LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN


In 1992, Letter from an Unknown Woman was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1957, a Mexican version called Feliz Año, Amor Mío, starring Marga López and Arturo de Córdova, was released.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophuls brought his trademark flowing camera style and a taste of the old Vienna to Hollywood for this tragic story of unrequited love. Leaving Germany after the ascendancy of the Nazi party, Max Ophuls made films in France and Italy before emigrating to Hollywood in the late 1940s.