Letter from an Unknown Woman / English Film

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[1948]: Rampart Productions, New York

Letter from an Unknown Woman [A black and white film drama based on Stefan Zweig's novella "Der Brief einer Unbekannten"]

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Language: English
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Director: Max Ophüls
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Producers: John Houseman and William Dozier
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Film editor: Ted J. Kent
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Script writers: Howard Koch and Max Ophüls
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Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet et al.
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Music by: Daniele Amfitheatrof
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Cinematographer: Franz Planer
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Distributed by Universal Pictures
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Runtime: 1 hour and 26 minutes
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Released in the United States on 28 April 1948 (New York City, NY) and 4 May 1948 (Los Angeles, CA). As of 5 December 2017 this film is available as a Blu-ray edition. See: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=22372
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The film was shown on 16 and 26 December 2017 in the Walter Reade Theater, Manhattan. See: J. Hoberman. "Obsession, Unspoken and Unacknowledged: 'Letter From an Unknown Woman'" in The New York Times [New York], 13 December 2017. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/movies/letter-from-an-unknown-woman-max-ophuls.html

[1952]: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), New York, NY

Letter from an Unknown Woman [A black and white TV episode based on Stefan Zweig's novella "Der Brief einer Unbekannten". Studio One in Hollywood, Season 4, Episode 24]

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Language: English
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Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Script writer: Worthington Miner
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Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Melvyn Bouglas, Frederic Tozere et al.
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Runtime: 1 hour
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Released in the United States on 25 February 1952


Released as an Olive Signature Blu-ray on 5 December 2017 [Olive Films, Chicago, IL]. Cost per disc = "$39.95. See James Kendrick's article "Letter from an Unknown Woman" published on 13 September 2018 in both the Australian Herald [Sydney NSW, Australia] and the Sierra Leone Times[Sierra Leone, Freetown, West Africa]