Evening star., 1949-03-20
Everybody Loves Addie
Of.Stage Author of Three Wives Letter
a Girl of Great Charm
By Joy Cormody

Addie Ross three in Letter to Three
Hollywood.
Addie abeautul Undesirable character who
appears only screenplay thus than the
girl friends in the Joseph Mankiewicz
larger she is the character the movies
and wise human and humorous in
girl movie fans have been awaiting so dolefuy 50
long.
washingonians like others them hocked
few other characters IN
of Arc Even the critics everywhere have
succumbed Addie they had been waiting Tor ner I'M
Picture u S. Best Seller
noteworthy and trust Hollywood to make due note OF IT,
that Letter Three Wives this weeks best seller
in the Nations movie theaters.
the why is noteworthy that
picture perfect In both its
and in the possession of few lines has that recognan
fekeness which makes JOY instead OF masterpiece
Mere all moviegoers ask and the news OF ne gets
around like lghtnng
Wives" is just entertainment 1t has no
unless people and life funny Its
superiority other films not essentially in Its story athouen
the angle novel but rather in the fact that its
remain this in spite OF the fact that the
which they placed occasionally contrved
Addie Never Appears.
Most interesting figure in hs gallery OF suburban wives % ano
husbands imaginative bachelor girl and wisely
simply to the maginations OF moviegoers is en-
ry plausible the three husbands Of her best friends should
with her at time or another and that tney
possibly still are in love with her - ,
woman of lesser charm would guilty of merely
vny in writing to three wives that sne was nat oa
eoping with the of them AS is seems no
more should have whichever OF the three
men she wants. only that she woman OF
greater not virtue than the ones she vcimizes
guessing SdHe-"ilcii
band-woud movegoes as 1t is to the three
wives involved. .
constructed, Addie must draw heavily
the story She set up as woman
beautiful than Jeanne Grain the
lovely suffers from neroriy complex ABOUT
Otherwise Jery Lynn as Miss Grams
husband shallow dope should he turn out
the clipping husband
Miss Sothern the Clever One
the three wvesthe one mar
extraordinarily clever wife II Addle
can jeopardze marriage with its lively she
upehumany adroi That she manages TO keep
miserable leaves little oouot
that remarkable three husbands obviously think
Probably most remarkable of Adde'S qualities IS That I'M
piled possibility that she might wreck the third OF the mar
rages that between Paul Douglas and Linda Darnel.
ndamentaistS in love- They know what they
unrelated ceverness subety grace and
decacy each other and the possibility that
them suggests that she probably
is the versatile since Eve.
what the six principals Letter to Ihree wives
picture of Adde far too remarkable Tor
any producer to embody her on the
JUST as Gotten Said.
add combination OF six people who
delightfully."- human and amusing cropping their way through
three marriages The quality they give to
their picture Hollywood the that discriminating
movegoers like best in many foreign
pictures French, English and Italian.
prediction Joseph Gotten once made to this
the following words:
What those pictures will have, when the situation
becomes desperate enough"