Directed by:
Max OphülsScreenplay:
Howard KochCinematography:
Franz PlanerComposer:
Daniele AmfitheatrofCast:
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke, Howard Freeman, Erskine Sanford, Irene Seidner, William H. O'Brien (more)Plots(1)
Set in turn of the century Vienna, this haunting tale is perhaps cinemas greatest unrequited love story and is considered to be one of Ophuls great masterpieces. Philandering concert pianist Stefan arrives home to find a letter, which begins "by the time you read this I will be dead". So unfolds the story of Lisa, one of many women with whom he had shared a brief encounter over the years and swiftly forgotten. Her life had been spent loving him unfalteringly and now he would learn the truth about his past. (Second Sight)
(more)Cast
William Vedder
USA
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Gunfighter (1950)
William Trenk
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Karl May (1974)
Betty Blythe
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Lester Sharpe
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Lust for Life (1956)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Norbert Schiller
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Shimen Ruskin
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Love and Death (1975)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Douglas Carter
UK
Best movies:
Storm Warning (1951)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)
Judith Woodbury
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Edit Angold
German Empire
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Great Caruso (1951)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)