They Were Sisters
- Phyllis Calvert: Lucy Moore
- James Mason: Geoffrey Lee
- Hugh Sinclair: Terry Crawford
- Anne Crawford: Vera Sargeant
- Peter Murray - Hill: William Moore
- Dulcie Gray: Charlotte Lee
- Barry Livesey: Brian Sargeant
- Pamela Mason: Margaret Lee
- Ann Stephens: Judith Lee
- Helen Stephens: Sarah Sargeant
- John Gilpin: Stephen Lee
- Brian Nissen: John Watson
- David Horne: Mr. Field
- Brefni O'Rorke: Coroner
- Roland Pertwee: Sir Hamish Nair
- Amy Veness: Mrs. Purley
- Thorley Walters: Channing
Three marriages ( Original title: They Were Sisters) is a British film drama directed by Arthur Crabtree in 1945 with Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair and Anne Crawford in the lead roles. The film was produced by Gainsborough Pictures on the novel They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple.
Action
Are told the life stories of three sisters, Lucy ( Phyllis Calvert ), Charlotte ( Dulcie Gray ) and Vera ( Anne Crawford ).
The film begins at a dance in 1919, where the personalities of the protagonists introduced and are shown in their psychological well-being gradually through the courtship and subsequent marriage with their husbands. Although the sisters remain close together over the years, their characters and the paths of life and love, which imposed their lives, completely different develop.
Lucy is the woman with the mental stability largest of the three, a sensitive and practical woman in a happy marriage, whose greatest sadness is that they can not have children. But this fact, it compensates sent over their affection they evenly distributed on their nephews and nieces.
Vera is blessed with a one-child relationship, but her life is very monotonous and unloving, she is restless and bored of her dreary life at home, so she indulges her appetite for adventure and excitement through a series of flirtations with other men, sometimes beyond the limit of the socially and morally acceptable.
Charlotte is a cowed and timid person who suffers from severe physical and emotional yoke of their cruel and ruthless husband, who manipulated and they are constantly humiliated in front of their three children.
Reviews
" Marriage fates of three sisters, who are closely related and highly uneven men marry; one of them turns out to be a sadistic psychopath. Enthralling trashy drama with criminal elements and good actors performances. "
Production Notes
The production design is by David Rawnsley. Mixer was B.C. Sewell. The conductor was Louis Levy. The costumes delivered Yvonne Caffin. Len Guard was responsible as a makeup artist and the production line was Harold Richmond.