Margaret Buell Wilder


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Since You Went Away (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Mrs. Hilton, I Presume? Col. Smollett (Monty Woolley) follows a rejected applicant and rents the room from Anne (Claudette Colbert), Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (Shirley Temple) observing, in William Wyler's home-front drama Since You Went Away, 1944.
Since You Went Away (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Eternal Also-Ran Anne (Claudette Colbert) meets divorcee Emily (Agnes Moorehead) for a drink, social commentary overheard, and Tony (Joseph Cotten) appearing, in David Selznick's home-front saga Since You Went Away, 1944.
Since You Went Away (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Wish I Were Twenty-Seven Jane (Jennifer Jones) is at first compassionate toward Corporal Smollett (Jones' then-husband Robert Walker) then swooning before officer Tony (Joseph Cotten) in David Selznick's Since You Went Away, 1944.
Stolen LIfe, A (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Could I Hire A Boat? Director Curtis Bernhardt’s opening, banking Bette Davis’ New England bona fides, as she misses a boat and hires handsome Glenn Ford to ferry her over to a nameless island, neither of them identified at this point, in A Stolen Life, 1946, based on a novel by the Czech writer Karel Benes.
Stolen LIfe, A (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Smart For A Woman Crafty but not evil, painter Kate (Bette Davis) sails to the lighthouse with a prize she knows is coveted by the keeper Folger (Walter Brennan), her proposition only a cover for her true intention, of getting to know the maintenance man Bill (Glenn Ford), in A Stolen Life, 1946.
Stolen LIfe, A (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Painting In The Dark? Returning to her family’s New England island retreat after a modest romantic encounter, somewhat frumpy painter Kate (Bette Davis) meets, for the first-time, her much talked-about twin sister Pat (also Bette), director Curtis Bernhardt using mattes and stand-ins, in A Stolen Life, 1946.
Stolen LIfe, A (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You Think I'm Well-Frosted? Bill (Glenn Ford) doesn’t even know of the existence of Pat (Bette Davis), the vivacious mischievous twin sister of his reserved almost-girlfriend Kate (also Bette), much less that he’s been intercepted by her, and taken to their New England vacation cottage for lunch, in A Stolen Life, 1946.
Since You Went Away -- (Movie Clip) Your Grandson Boarder Col. Smollett (Monty Woolley) is not amused with the joke Brig (Shirley Temple) has received from her soldier father when his own unwelcome grandson (Robert Walker) drops by, in Since You Went Away, 1944.

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