Letter of Introduction
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Actor: Don "Red" Barry, Edgar Bergen, Eve Arden, Irving Bacon, John ArcherBrand: Alpha Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
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DVD Review: Show Biz tearjerker
Summary: 4 Stars
ALPHA VIDEO offers bargain priced, often hard-to-find vintage movies that are ideal for those willing to skip DVD extras. Their transfers show no evidence of restoration, so quality varies from one title to the next, with "fair to good" being the average.
The opening scene in LETTER OF INTRODUCTION (1938) has Andrea Leeds and Edgar Bergen out walking among a New Year's Eve crowd. They reach their theatrical boarding house residence and discover that it's on fire. Other actors (vaudevillians, most likely) pour out of the smoking multi-story brownstone, including a fellow with a trained seal. Bergen rushes upstairs to grab his puppet, Charlie McCarthy but forgets to retrieve an important letter belonging to Leeds, so she dashes inside to get it.
Miss Leeds is overcome by smoke and a man who lives across the street, George Murphy rescues her. She and Murphy are immediately attracted to each other, much to Bergen's dismay and his dummy's delight.
The film stars Adolphe Menjou as an aging leading man who later learns from the introductory letter written by her now-dead mother that Andrea is his daughter. Menjou, who is filled with fatherly affection for Leeds, helps the struggling young actress land a lead role by agreeing to return to the stage and appear with her in a new production. On opening night this former matinee idol gets the jitters, drinks too much and collapses in front of a startled audience. Leeds is angry that he's spoiled her Broadway debut, but all is soon forgiven when her dad is involved in a terrible accident.
Other cast members include Ann Sheriden, Eve Arden and Frank Jenks.
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In their very next film, YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939), Bergen & McCarthy are part of a small circus run by W.C. Fields. Charlie and W.C. get along here like kindling and lighter fluid.
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?MPAA Rating: NR
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 104 minutes
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