MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Monique One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

A_Different_Drummer It is not right that Random Harvest, which came 3 years earlier and played on very similar plot notes, is considered a timeless classic whereas Love Letters has somehow been relegated to the dustbin of cinematic history and is almost impossible to find these days.First, the teaming of Cotton and Jones is magical. Cotton could not give a bad performance if his life depended on it (he was always the first casting choice for an Orson Wells project) and Jones had a rare on screen charisma which is unequalled in the present day. (Three years after this project, they did Portrait of Jennie together, a truly perfect and one of a kind production which leaves Random Harvest in its dust.) Love Letters is not perfect but it is a still a masterpiece. The first act is flawless, especially the clever transition from Cotton's uneasy sense that writing love letters for another man is itself an act that only lead to calamity... to the almost Hitchcockian mystery as to what actually happened to Jones' character.The second act however seems a bit long and perhaps stretched. Ninety minutes might have made a tighter film.In spite of such quibbling Love Letters is a remarkable piece of entertainment and deserves more attention from cinephiles than it is getting.

rsternesq I am very fond of the stars and many members of the supporting cast. I adore Portrait of Jennie. I think Ayn Rand was a prophet and wise beyond the ability of most people to even comprehend. Putting all of that aside. Even putting aside all of the music, the clothes, the atmosphere and the dialog. This is still wonderful. This is a story of fate, of love and how the two sometimes come together in an undeniable vision that, once seen is never forgotten. This is a wonderful movie and I enjoy it more with each viewing. Now that Ms. Jones is gone. she can always be as she was here and that is, she was loved by not just one man but by almost everyone who saw her back then when she and the world were so very much younger. Fate, not always so kind but somehow this movie makes one feel that there are worse things than to be fated to an inescapable love.

whpratt1 Jennifer Jones, (Singleton/Victoria Morland),"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing",'55, plays a young girl who communicates with a soldier in World War II and Joseph Cotton,(Allen Quinton),"Niagara",'53, writes letters to Victoria and for some reason, starts falling in love with a girl he has never met and is really not his girlfriend. There is some very deep dark mysterious facts surrounding this Victoria Morland and these love letters become major importance to the outcome of this story. This film is very well directed and produced in black and white which makes it a very dramatic and realistic with a London, England background. Jennifer Jones was married to quite a few men in real life, one was Robert Walker, "Strangers on a Train". Joseph Cotton and Jennifer Jones gave a classic performance in a very well acclaimed motion picture in the year 1945. Joseph Cotton was a leading star during the 40's and starred with Marilyn Monroe in "Niagara", 1953.

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.