Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 32m
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore, Robert Benchley, Charles Arnt, Cecil Kellaway, Kathleen Howard, Margaret Seddon, Dooley Wilson, George H. Reed, Margaret Hayes, Sonny Boy Williams, John Holland, Eddie Acuff, Dorothy Granger, Bess Flowers, Sam Harris, Harold Miller, James Millican, Bert Moorhouse, William H. O'Brien, Gino Corrado, Virginia Brissac
No official release
No official edition exists. Anything circulating comes from unofficial sources, so there is no release this site can recommend.
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About the film
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K
Director: Preston Sturges
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Indicator Blu-ray > Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Director: Gregory La Cava
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Although there's a bit of aggressive grain management see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15853770&postcount=43
Kino Lorber Carole Lombard Collection II Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
France Movinside Blu-ray although has contrast boosting, still better than Kino Lorber's aggressive DNR caps
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
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