The gist is that there are four women (who are supposed to be friends, but are more like frenemies) in a small town. On the first Saturday in May, the day of the biggest social event of the year for the town, one of them writes a letter to the other three, telling them that she's run off with one of their husbands. The drama unfolds because the three women are handed the letter just as they are setting off as chaperons for an outing for a children's charity that will keep them away from home all day and so a couple of the women won't know whether their husbands are gone or not unless they don't show up to the big dinner that evening.
Dun dun duuuun!
The three women are played by Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain, and Ann Sothern and you never seen the fourth woman (the one who ran off and whose voice you hear through much of the movie), but the fourth woman's voice was Celeste Holm. I think they all did such a great job. I loved the story, the costumes, the dialogue...everything! The screenplay was adapted from a serial novel that was published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1945. The original novel (pre-serialization) actually was about a letter to five wives, but the film version cut it down to three.
Something I discovered while doing research about the movie was that, in 2010, The Simpsons created their own episode around their version of the movie. From Cosmo, to the Oscars, and full circle to The Simpsons. Nice.
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