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Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise. The plot tells the story of a man falling in love with an amnesiatic woman with two personalities who killed his soldier friend.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Jones.
"Love Letters" is a 1945 popular song with lyrics by Edward Heyman and music by Victor Young. The song appeared, without lyrics, in the movie of the same name, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song for 1945.
The song has been performed many times, but the best-known versions were made by:
- Dick Haymes (in 1945, US #11)
- Peggy Lee (in 1954)
- Nat King Cole recorded the song in December 1956 for his 1957 album Love Is the Thing.
- Ketty Lester (in 1962, US #5, US R&B #2, UK #4)
- Julie Rogers recorded the song for her debut album Julie Rogers (1964)
- Cilla Black recorded the song for her debut album Cilla (1965, No. 5)
- Elvis Presley (in 1966, US #19, UK #6)
- Frankie Miller had in 1977 a hit with his version in Belgium
- Joe Walsh (in 1983)
- Alison Moyet (in 1987, UK #4)
- Boz Scaggs (in 1997)
- Elton John (in 1993) recorded the song with Bonnie Raitt, for his Duets album
Love Letters is a play by A. R. Gurney that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards – in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats – that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.
The play is a performance favorite for busy name actors, for it requires little preparation, and lines need not be memorized. It was first performed by the playwright himself with Holland Taylor at the New York Public Library, then opened in 1988 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut with Joanna Gleason and John Rubinstein.
Love Letters is the debut album from American country music artist Leslie Satcher. It was released in 2000 on Warner Bros. Records. Although it produced four singles, none of them charted. Satcher wrote or co-wrote eleven of its twelve tracks, with the only outside contribution being her cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe".
Love Letters is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3231 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7231 in stereo in 1962.
Love Letters is a 1999 ABC television film directed by Stanley Donen and based on the 1988 play by A. R. Gurney. Gurney adapted his own work for the telescript, dramatizing scenes and portraying characters that were merely described in the play. Donen had envisioned it to be a theatrical film, but a limited budget restricted him to make a TV movie and he shot the film in only 17 days. It is his last film as of 2016.
Love Letters is the first Japanese studio album by Korean boy group The Boss, released on January 18, 2012 on the Japanese label Sony Music Entertainment.
Love Letters is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Jamie Lee Curtis. The film is directed by Amy Holden Jones which Roger Corman agreed to finance following her success with The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).
Love Letters is a young adult novel written by author Katie Fforde and was published by Arrow in 2009.
Love Letters is the fourth studio album by English electronic band Metronomy released on March 10, 2014 through Because Music.
Love Letters is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Ella Stuart Carson and Shannon Fife. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, William Conklin, Dorcas Matthews, Thurston Hall, Hayward Mack, and William Hoffman. The film was released on December 24, 1917, by Paramount Pictures. A print of Love Letters is held by the Library of Congress.