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Love Letters
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	William Dieterle
Written by	Ayn Rand
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Ann Richards Cecil Kellaway Gladys Cooper Anita Louise
Cinematography	Lee Garmes
Edited by	Anne Bauchens
Music by	Victor Young
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 17, 1945
Running time	101 min.
Country	USA
Language	English

Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise.

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jennifer Jones), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer), Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Music, Song (Victor Young and Edward Heyman for "Love Letters").

Plot summary

Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten), a soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend Roger Morland (Robert Scully), a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." He has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her as a "pin-up girl of the spirit," to whom he can express feelings he's never expressed in person. He realizes that Victoria has fallen in love with the letters and is concerned that Victoria will be disappointed by the real Roger.

When he returns home, Alan learns that Roger has died. When he tries to look up Victoria he is told that she has also died, and he learns that Roger's death was a murder. At a party he meets and falls in love with a mysterious woman named Singleton (Jennifer Jones), who may hold the key to these deaths, but is suffering from amnesia. The subsequent plot follows Singleton's effort to regain her past, and Alan's efforts to find out what the real story of the murder was.

Cast

• Jennifer Jones - Singleton / Victoria Morland
• Joseph Cotten - Allen Quinton
• Ann Richards - Dilly Carson
• Cecil Kellaway - Mac
• Gladys Cooper - Beatrice Remington
• Anita Louise - Helen Wentworth
• Robert Sully - Roger Morland
• Reginald Denny - Defense counsel Phillips
• Ernest Cossart - Bishop
• Byron Barr - Derek Quinton

References

1. "NY Times: Love Letters". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-19.

External links

• Love Letters at IMDb
• Template:Amg movie
• Love Letters at the TCM Movie Database

• 1945 films
• American drama films
• Black and white films
• 1940s drama films
• English-language films
• Films directed by William Dieterle
• Paramount films