Bette Davis cemented herself as a fashion icon through films like NOW, VOYAGER ('42), DARK VICTORY ('39), and ALL ABOUT EVE ('50). Playing a range of characters from the glamorous to the grotesque, Davis' costumes were an integral part of her most memorable roles. #LightsCameraFashion | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

"This long opening shot in THE LETTER is, in my opinion, the finest opening shot I have ever seen in a film." - Bette Davis THE LETTER premiered on this day in 1940. | Bette Davis

The Letter is a 1940 American film noir crime melodrama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham derived from his own short story. The play was first filmed in 1929, by director Jean de Limur. The story was inspired by a real-life scandal involving the wife of the headmaster of a school in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shoo

"I think I should tell you that there is in existence... a letter." THE LETTER premiered on November 22, 1940!. | Bette Davis