The Great Lie is a 1941 black-and-white Drama film with Mary Astor, Bette Davis and George Brent. It was directed by Edmund Goulding from an adaptation by Lenore J. Coffee of the novel The Far Horizon by Polan Banks.
Sandra Kovak (Astor), a concert pianist, and Peter Van Allen (Brent) have married, but his lawyer tells him the marriage is void because her divorce has not become absolute. He marries old flame Maggie Patterson (Davis) instead, but ...
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The Great Lie is a 1941 black-and-white Drama film with Mary Astor, Bette Davis and George Brent. It was directed by Edmund Goulding from an adaptation by Lenore J. Coffee of the novel The Far Horizon by Polan Banks.
Sandra Kovak (Astor), a concert pianist, and Peter Van Allen (Brent) have married, but his lawyer tells him the marriage is void because her divorce has not become absolute. He marries old flame Maggie Patterson (Davis) instead, but his plane goes missing in Brazil and he is presumed dead.
Sandra is pregnant by Peter. The former love rivals become friends, after Maggie proposes a truce, and she persuades Sandra to allow her to look after Sandra during her confinement, to the latter's occasional irritation. They go away together, spending time in Arizona for the child's birth, a son who is named after his father. Afterwards, Sandra goes on a world tour, happily leaving her child in the care of Maggie. Peter though, has not died in the crash, and he returns, though Maggie...
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