Extended Reading
  • Aida 2022-05-07 06:01:17

    The inexhaustible relationship between the sexes

    The Chinese translation of "Three Wife Amorous History" is very vulgar and vivid. The story of the three couples, the narrative is very simple, from a female perspective.
    Among them, Lora Mae in the third part of the story is the most peculiar, always reminding me of the Yishu girl.
    The gentleman...

  • Corene 2022-05-07 06:01:17

    A shallow interpretation

    From Zizek's "Looking Obliquely"

    ... Joseph Mankiewicz’s classic Hollywood melodrama "The Romance of Three Wives" also tells the story of missing women, but it shows the "impossibility of sexual relations" in a more refined way. Although the missing woman never appeared on the screen, she kept...

A Letter to Three Wives quotes

  • Lora Mae Hollingsway: [dressed to lead a group of children hiking] Don't expected us back too soon - we kids are going after everything from sardines to wolves.

    Rita Phipps: [archly] You'll have no trouble finding wolves, honey.

  • Rita Phipps: [laying down the law to Sadie] And lets get a couple of things straight. First, when you announce dinner...

    Sadie: I know, I'm not supposed to say "soup's on".

    Rita Phipps: How did I tell you?

    Sadie: I forgot.

    Rita Phipps: "Dinner is served"

    Sadie: [mockingly] "Dinner is served"

    Rita Phipps: And you're not to say it as though the food were poisoned.

    Sadie: All this fancy schmanzy because two people from the city are gonna eat here.

    Rita Phipps: Mrs. Manley is a very important person; she has charge of a great many radio programs, including the one I write.

    Rita Phipps: You know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum I can understand it.

    Rita Phipps: Thank you so much.