Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

jacobs-greenwood This compelling (atmospheric) mystery romance drama is a Cyrano de Bergerac-type story from Chris Massie with a screenplay by Ayn Rand; it was directed by William Dieterle.Jennifer Jones plays Victoria, who falls in love with the author of the titled "love letters"; she thinks Roger Morland (Robert Sully) wrote them, but actually it was his friend and fellow officer Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten) who penned the letters on his behalf. She marries Roger but when Victoria learns the truth, she is disillusioned and is soon convicted of her husband's murder. Since she was simultaneously stricken with amnesia, and now thinks her name is Singleton, she is soon released into the care of a friend named Dilly Carson (Ann Richards).Some time later, Alan returns from the war via a sanitarium. He learns of his friend's death and visits the small town where the letters had been sent. At a party, he meets Dilly and later, somewhat inebriated, recounts the story of his friend and the letters. Of course, Dilly knows the story; she's grown to like Alan but she's also weary of the possibilities and danger of exposing the truth to Singleton.Alan returns to live at his Aunt's house which is still being kept by Mack (Cecil Kellaway). Not really recovered from the pain of the war, Alan breaks his engagement with his fiancée Helen (Anita Louise). But he's intrigued by the mystery of his friend Roger's death, so he researches it and finds that his wife had been the murderer. He's also always wanted to meet the woman to whom he'd written the letters because he'd always been curious about her.Of course, Alan meets Singleton and the two fall in love. Dilly warns Alan not to tell Singleton that she is actually Victoria, the person Singleton believes is Alan's lost love. When Alan and Singleton marry, her curiosity prompts a self discovery of her own, which is enabled when her aged "parent" Beatrice Remington (Gladys Cooper) returns the area. Beatrice had adopted orphan Victoria and had actually been the one who'd murdered Roger, to protect her former charge, before she'd suffered from a stroke and had been unable to testify at the trial. All this comes rushing back to Singleton when she happens upon the old house where she finds Beatrice; Alan arrives just in time to complete the connection, for himself and her.Reginald Denny and Ian Wolfe (uncredited) also plays roles in this film which earned Jones a Best Actress Academy Award nomination; its B&W Art Direction-Set Decoration, title Song, and Score were also Oscar nominated.

blanche-2 "Love Letters" is a 1945 film starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones. It's a mystery/romance that also is a spin on "Cyrano de Bergerac." As a favor to a buddy, British soldier Allen Quinten writes letters to his friend Roger's girlfriend Victoria while they are serving together, though Allen's conscience begins to bother him. He has also fallen in love with Victoria, and he believes that Victoria has fallen in love with a "man who doesn't exist." Once discharged and back in the London area, he learns that Roger married Victoria and later was killed. As it turns out, Roger was murdered by Victoria, who served a year in prison for manslaughter. Allen blames himself, feeling that the murder happened because Victoria was disillusioned when she realized she married a man who was not the person she fell in love with. When by coincidence he meets Victoria, she has amnesia. Once he finds out who she is, it's too late - they're in love, and he wants to marry her.This is a really lovely film, based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Ayn Rand. Though it may not seem a likely subject for Rand, her personal philosophy is in play. "Cyrano de Bergerac" was one of her favorite stories, and she believed, as she shows in "Atlas Shrugged," that any deception in love can only lead to disaster.There's not much mystery to the story - you know what happened from the very beginning - but the romance is good, as is the acting. Gladys Cooper plays Victoria's aunt, who suffered a stroke after the murder. She's very good. Cotten and Jones make a great team as always, Cotten strong, sensitive, pensive and handsome, and Jones stunningly beautiful and fragile with that dreamy quality that made her so good in the later "Portrait of Jennie." "Portrait of Jennie" is more interesting and a better film overall, but both benefit from an ethereal performance by Jones and nice chemistry with Cotten.The song "Love Letters" comes from this film. It is played throughout and adds to the lovely British country atmosphere. Highly recommended.

bkoganbing This modern re-working of the Cyrano De Bergerac tale has one interesting twist, the Christian character is killed off in the first reel and he's not a nice guy to begin with.Joseph Cotten, a sensitive and romantic soul, is persuaded by an army buddy to write love letters in the friend's name to a girl he's trying to impress. It works real good, they get married.But after Cotten is wounded and is invalided out of the British Army, he discovers that the man he wrote the letters for has been killed and his wife charged and convicted of the crime. The wife has also lost all memory of the event.As fate would have it, Cotten and wife Jennifer Jones do meet and fall in love and they marry. That's how it's worked in these Hollywood romances. But you don't care when the players are as sophisticated as Joseph Cotten and as luminescently beautiful as Jennifer Jones. You don't even mind that these two American players don't even try to adopt British accents.Love Letters was a great big hit for Paramount back then, helped no doubt by the title song which was also selling a lot of records. Dick Haymes had the big hit record of Love Letters. Perry Como and later Andy Williams did well by this most romantic of ballads. It's a personal favorite of mine.If your taste is films about war time romances, this is the movie for you.

zader Although lacking the thematic elements of screenwriter Ayn Rand's subsequent novels, the script to this movie has an elegant plot and style characteristic of Rand's ever-popular novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Jennifer Jones is stunning as the quintessential innocent. I have watched the movie about three times and enjoyed it tremendously each time.