977 (109). A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Screened July 11 2009 on 20th Century Fox DVD in Brooklyn NY TSPDT rank #957 IMDb Wiki Joseph Mankiewicz’ wittily scripted, innovatively structured survey of distaff martial life at the brink of the Eisenhower era pits three middle class wives against an impossible feminine ideal. Addie Ross, the omniscient, goddess-like narrator who opens the film with withering remarks about the lives of the desperate housewives she calls friends, is as much of a structuring absence as Citizen K