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The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a ...
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1927
Jun 28, 2012 · Bette Davis and William Wyler. In January 1940, Warner Bros. announced that Bette Davis would star in a remake of a film adapted from a play Somerset Maugham had dramatized from his own short story, The Letter.
For both the 1923 and 1924 Christmas shows at the Adelphi Theatre, Cooper played the title character in Peter Pan, while also playing several other roles at that theatre during those two years. She appeared in Maugham's The Letter in London and on tour in 1927 and 1928, in Excelsior (adapted from " L'Ecole des Cocottes " by H.M. Harwood ) in ...
Oct 15, 2012 · The themes of W. Somerset Maugham, English legend of literature and drama, often revolve around a single strong woman who drives the story forward, and whose power often wreaks havoc in the lives of the men around her. In the works to be discussed here, Of Human Bondage and The Letter, as well as a….
Coming to the West End from a UK tour, she played Leslie Crosbie in Maugham's The Letter at Wyndham's Theatre (2007), again co-starring with Anthony Andrews. [2] In December 2007, she played Marion Brewster-Wright in the Garrick Theatre revival of Alan Ayckbourn 's dark, three-act comedy Absurd Person Singular. [3]
Jun 8, 2016 · The plantations of Malaya and Singapore form the backdrop to this tale of betrayal, murder and 'the love that dare not speak its name' from the mighty pen of W Somerset Maugham.
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The Letter movie (1940) review summary: One of Bette Davis’ greatest showcases, William Wyler’s flawlessly acted, splendidly produced adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s play remains one of the artistic peaks of Hollywood’s studio era. Also in the fantastic cast: Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, and Gale Sondergaard.
