A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one.
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What critics compared A Letter to Three Wives to
The scabrous wit that writer-director Mankiewicz brought to his Oscar-winning pictures All About Eve and A Letter to Three Wives is nowhere to be found in Cleopatra.
Mankiewicz was a great director of close-ups and domestic interiors: Bette Davis having her "infants behave the way I do" epiphany in All About Eve , the titular characters trapped with their memories in A Letter to Three Wives .
But Joseph L. Mankiewicz (“All About Eve,” “Cleopatra,” “Guys and Dolls”) stays close to the book and plays it as straight drama, using it as a framework to tell the story of three less-than-perfect relationships.