Title: The Letter (1929 film)
Content:  The Letter is an American pre-Code drama film produced by Paramount Pictures. It was the first full-sound feature shot at Astoria Studios, Queens, New York City. A silent version of the film also was released. It stars the noted stage actress Jeanne Eagels and O.P. Heggie, and it was directed by Jean de Limur. The film was adapted by Garrett Fort from the 1927 play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of a married woman who kills her lover out of jealousy and is brought to trial.
Title: The Letter (1940 film)
Content:  The Letter is a 1940 American film noir crime melodrama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham derived from his own short story. The play was first filmed in 1929, by director Jean de Limur. The story was inspired by a real-life scandal involving the wife of the headmaster of a school in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned.
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Content:  A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them. It stars Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Paul Douglas in his film debut, Kirk Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, and Thelma Ritter. An uncredited Celeste Holm provides the voice of Addie Ross, the unseen woman who wrote the titular letter. The film was adapted by Vera Caspary and Joseph L. Mankiewicz from  A Letter to Five Wives, a story by John Klempner that appeared in Cosmopolitan, based on a 1945 novel by Klempner. It was directed by Mankiewicz, who directed All About Eve the following year. The film won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture.
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Content:  finished, Gene Tierney, Linda Darnell, Maureen O'Hara, Dorothy McGuire, and Alice Faye were cast in A Letter to Five Wives in November 1946. For a while, the project was shelved until Mankiewicz returned, working on drafts of the script between March and late April 1948. Around this time, Sol C. Siegel was assigned to replace Engel as the film's producer. Vera Caspary adapted the story to A Letter to Four Wives. Then studio head Darryl F. Zanuck and Mankiewicz eventually decided in mid-1948 to focus on only three marriages, thus retitling it to A Letter to Three Wives. In June 1948, it was on the top of 20th Century Fox' list of 
Title: The Letter (2012 film)
Content:  The Letter, previously called The Stare, is a 2012 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Jay Anania, starring Winona Ryder and James Franco. Franco is a former student of Anania's, who teaches directing at NYU. The pair previously collaborated on Shadows and Lies. In 2012, it was announced that Lionsgate purchased the distribution rights to the film, which was retitled The Letter. The film got its first theatrical showing at the Cincinnati Film Festival on September 9, 2012.
Title: The Letter (2012 film)
Content:  Writing for 7MPictures, Liam Carr said that "The Letter is not a thriller. It is barely a film. It's a boring, self-important, disjointed and pointless pile of tripe masquerading as a movie."
Title: The Letters (2014 film)
Content:  The Letters is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed and written by William Riead. The film stars Juliet Stevenson, Max von Sydow, Rutger Hauer and Priya Darshini. It was produced by Colin Azzopardi, Tony Cordeaux, and Lisa Riead. It was released theatrically by Freestyle Releasing on December 4, 2015.
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Content:  Film rights to John Klempner's A Letter to Five Wives were acquired by 20th Century Fox in February 1946, seven months after it was first published in a magazine. Melville Baker and Dorothy Bennett wrote the first treatments of the script. Even though he was not credited for the final film, it was Baker who had the idea that the character Addie was only to be heard, and not seen. In October 1946, F. Hugh Herbert was assigned to write the screen adaptation. His final participation was not confirmed. In the same month, it was announced that Samuel G. Engel took over as producer from Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Even before a script 
Title: The Letter (1940 film)
Content: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie ; Herbert Marshall as Robert Crosbie ; James Stephenson as Howard Joyce ; Frieda Inescort as Dorothy Joyce ; Gale Sondergaard as Mrs. Hammond ; Bruce Lester as John Withers ; Elizabeth Earl as Adele Ainsworth ; Cecil Kellaway as Prescott ; Sen Yung as Ong Chi Seng ; Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Cooper ; Willie Fung as Chung Hi ; Tetsu Komai as Head Boy ; Holmes Herbert as Robert's Friend (uncredited) ; Leo White as Man at Trial (uncredited) 
Title: The Letter (1929 film)
Content: Jeanne Eagels as Leslie Crosbie ; Reginald Owen as Robert Crosbie ; Herbert Marshall as Geoffrey Hammond ; Irene Browne as Mrs. Joyce ; O.P. Heggie as Mr. Joyce ; Hoang Thi The (Marie Beatrice Destham or Lady Tsen Mei) as Li-Ti ; Tamaki Yoshiwara as Ong Chi Seng 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Letter?
Answer: William Somerset Maugham.
W. Somerset Maugham.
Somerset Maugham.
Jean de Limur.