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The Great Lie is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edmund Goulding released in USA on 12 april 1941 with Bette Davis
The Great Lie (1941)
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Add to a movie listThe Great Lie is a 1941 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Bette Davis, George Brent, and Mary Astor. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee is based on the novel January Heights by Polan Banks.
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When concert pianist Sandra Kovak (Mary Astor) and her aviator husband Peter Van Allen (George Brent) discover their impulsive marriage is invalid because her divorce had not been finalized before they wed, he leaves her and marries his old flame Maggie Patterson (Bette Davis). Peter travels to Brazil on business and, when his aircraft goes missing, it is presumed it crashed in the jungle and he was killed.Actors
Bette Davis
(Maggie Patterson Van Allen)
George Brent
(Peter 'Pete' Van Allen)
Mary Astor
(Sandra Kovak)
Lucile Watson
(Aunt Ada Greenfield)
Hattie McDaniel
(Violet)
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