Le grand mensonge

Titre original : The Great Lie

1941
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1h 48min

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7,0/10

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Bette Davis and George Brent in Le grand mensonge (1941)

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

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Après la mort du mari d'une jeune mariée dans un accident d'avion, elle découvre que sa rivale pour son affection est maintenant enceinte de son enfant.Après la mort du mari d'une jeune mariée dans un accident d'avion, elle découvre que sa rivale pour son affection est maintenant enceinte de son enfant.Après la mort du mari d'une jeune mariée dans un accident d'avion, elle découvre que sa rivale pour son affection est maintenant enceinte de son enfant.

Réalisation
- Edmund Goulding
Scénario
- Lenore J. Coffee
- Polan Banks
Casting principal

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NOTE IMDb

7,0/10

4,5 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Edmund Goulding
Scénario
- Lenore J. Coffee
- Polan Banks
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 2 victoires au total

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Anecdotes
Bette Davis and Mary Astor thought the original script was not very good. They ended up doing massive rewrites on the script themselves.

Gaffes
The cake that Violet and Jefferson take to the party changes size from the time it leaves the kitchen to its arrival in the dining area. It leaves the kitchen very tall and arrives considerably shorter.

Citations
Sandra Kovac: I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf - I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite - and I like food!

Connexions
Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis (1977)

Bandes originales
Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
(1888) (uncredited)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sandra Kovac's signature concert piece.
Excerpts played over opening credits
Variations played often as background music

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7/10

Overblown but good soap opera

A rich woman Maggie (Bette Davis) is in love with Peter Van Allen (George Brent) who is married to famous concert pianist Sandra Kovak (Mary Astor). Them Van Allen finds out his marriage to Kovak isn't legal--they got married before her divorce was final. So he marries Maggie which infuriates Kovak. Then Kovak discovers she's pregnant and Van Allen disappears when his plane crashes in the jungle...

As you can see this is more than a little silly. The above plot just covers the first 30 minutes or so--the story gets even more ridiculous. This is wildly overly melodramatic and has an ending where reality totally disappears, but production values, music and performances pull it over.

It was lushly made (Warners Brothers spared no expense on this one) and there's some great music here--LOVE the piano solos that Astor is supposedly playing. Brent is good in his role--handsome and intelligent. Davis is (as always) good--she ALMOST overdoes it but is pulled back. Astor is GREAT--she deservedly won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for this. She takes her role and runs with it--she's playing an almost totally evil, self-absorbed woman and enjoys it.

So it IS silly but worth seeing. I watched the film with a smirk on my face the whole time but I DID keep watching. I give it a 7.