Love Letters of a Star

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Hobart Cavanaugh, Walter Coy, C. Henry Gordon, Henry Hunter, Alma Kruger, and Polly Rowles in Love Letters of a Star (1936)

A half-demented blackmailer named Sigurd Repellen confronts Jenny Aldrich with a stack of intimate fan letters she wrote to stage star Meredith Landers. Initially Jenny submits to Repellen's... Read allA half-demented blackmailer named Sigurd Repellen confronts Jenny Aldrich with a stack of intimate fan letters she wrote to stage star Meredith Landers. Initially Jenny submits to Repellen's demands, but when the threat of scandal mounts, she kills herself with poison rather than... Read allA half-demented blackmailer named Sigurd Repellen confronts Jenny Aldrich with a stack of intimate fan letters she wrote to stage star Meredith Landers. Initially Jenny submits to Repellen's demands, but when the threat of scandal mounts, she kills herself with poison rather than embarrass her prominent, wealthy Long Island family. Her suicide note reveals that she wa... Read all

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Universal Pictures production number 853.

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9/10

Obscure but Wonderful whodunit.

I find it amusing that the one other review of this film to date makes a point of referring to it as "no fair." I'll admit the film is not rich in clueing by the standards of Golden Age detective fiction- as with many a Murder, She Wrote episode, the detective is put on to the culprit's trail by the latter revealing knowledge he or she could not have known if innocent- but it's certainly better in its clueing than 90% of whodunit films of its era.

It's an extremely faithful adaptation of Rufus King's The Case of the Constant God, and in my opinion one of the best detective films of the 1930's. Henry C. Gordon is excellent as Lieutenant Valcour (did he have many other leading roles? It's a surprise not to see him as a heavy). And the usually sedate and gentlemanly Ralph Forbes gives an absolutely electric performance as the terrified matinee idol.