"Love Letters" (1945)
tells the story of soldier Allen Quinton (Cotten) writing letters
for an army buddy, Roger Morland, to Victoria, a girl Allen has never met. What
had begun as an indulgence turns disastrous. Upon his return to England Allen
finds that Roger Morland is dead, killed by his new wife - Victoria - the woman
to whom Allen had poured out his heart in love letters written in Roger's name.
Through a friend, Allen meets a young woman called Singleton (Jennifer Jones)
and is immediately drawn to her. Singleton has lost her memory and lives only
in the present; her unfettered innocence and serenity quell Allen's disillusionment
and sense of loss, and the two fall in love. But Allen soon finds that Singleton's
forgotten past holds a dark and traumatic secret, one in which Allen himself played
an integral part. To confront Singleton with the truth could cause him to lose
her forever.
A hopelessly (and deliciously) romantic film,"'Love Letters" somehow
escapes being cloying, and under the direction of William Dieterle, Cotten and
Jennifer Jones give sensitve and believeable portrayals as the troubled lovers.
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