Letter from an Unknown Woman

Carol Yorke (actress)
Max Ophüls (director)
Howard Koch (screenwriter)
Stefan Zweig (novella)
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (starring)

Los Angeles: Universal-International Pictures, 1948. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film, showing teenage actress Carol Yorke made up to look gaunt and plain on the left, and made up to look glamorous on the right. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.

Based on the 1922 novella by Stefan Zweig, about a pianist in 1900s Vienna who receives an important letter from a woman from his past, and must figure out how to escape a duel he is due to fight the next morning. The first film produced by Rampart Productions, an independent company formed by Joan Fontaine and her husband William Dozier.

10 x 8 inches. Faint tide mark on the top edge of the recto, else about Near Fine.

National Film Registry.


[Book #164632]