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Davis and Boyer give terrific performances in Litvak's taut period drama set in 19th-century France. A Duke provokes his wife's jealousy when he falls for the family's governess. Inevitably, the wife plots revenge.

Keywords:

Drama, Romance, Period Drama, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Classics

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1940) (USA)

Cast:

Bette Davis	.... Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
Charles Boyer	.... Duc de Praslin
Jeffrey Lynn	.... Henry Martyn Field
Barbara O'Neil	.... Duchesse de Praslin
Virginia Weidler	.... Louise
Helen Westley	.... Madame LeMaire

Supporting Cast:

Walter Hampden	.... Pasquier
Henry Daniell	.... Broussais
Harry Davenport	.... Pierre
George Coulouris	.... Charpentier
Montagu Love	.... Marechal Sebastiani
Janet Beecher	.... Miss Haines
June Lockhart	.... Isabelle
Ann E. Todd	.... Berthe
Richard Nichols	.... Reynald
Fritz Leiber	.... Abbe Gallard
Ian Keith	.... DeLangle
Sibyl Harris	.... Mlle. Maillard
Edward Fielding	.... Dr. Louis
Mary Anderson	.... Rebecca Jay

Directors:

Anatole Litvak

Writers:

Rachel Field
Casey Robinson