The Great Lie

The Great Lie

1941 | 1h 48m | Drama, Classic | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Academy Award winners Bette Davis and Mary Astor star with George Brent in this classic romantic drama about two women in love with the same man--and the extremes to which they will go to have him

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Edmund Goulding

CAST

George Brent

Bette Davis

Mary Astor

Lucile Watson

Hattie McDaniel

Grant Mitchell

Jerome Cowan

Charles Trowbridge

Thurston Hall

Russell Hicks

Virginia Brissac

J. Farrell MacDonald

Addison Richards

PRODUCERS

Hal B. Wallis

WRITERS

Lenore Coffee

Lenore Coffee

Polan Banks

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Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Gay Lad, Really
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Recovering from the week-long party after their impulsive wedding at her Park Avenue spread, flier Pete (George Brent) gets past agent Mason (Grant Mitchell) and friend James (Thurston Hall) to tell pianist Sandra (Mary Astor) that they're not legally married, early in The Great Lie, 1941.
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Dave Karger Intro -- The Great Lie (1941)
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Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Great Lie, 1941.
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Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) News About Your Friends
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Aviator Pete (George Brent) swoops into the Maryland home of long-time girlfriend Maggie (Bette Davis), intercepted by maid Violet (Hattie McDaniel), he alone knowing that his much-publicized hasty marriage to a famous pianist is not legal after all, early in The Great Lie, 1941.
02:43
Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Get Him Back
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Chance encounter at a New York restaurant, Maggie (Bette Davis), now married to flier Pete (George Brent), meets pianist Sandra (Mary Astor), to whom he was almost married, and who has big news, even as he calls with his own update, in The Great Lie, 1941.
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Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Feel Like Slapping Your Face
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Marylander Maggie (Bette Davis) is acting magnanimously on behalf of Pete, her long time sweetheart, stopping by to tell concert pianist Sandra (Mary Astor), whom he just married, about an aviation job, not knowing that the marriage isn't yet legal, in The Great Lie, 1941.
03:26
Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Be Tough Too!
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At her Maryland estate, after much travail, him sober and the two of them finally married, Maggie (Bette Davis) and Pete (George Brent) discover that the government flying assignment she got for him has come through sooner than expected, in The Great Lie, 1941, co-starring Mary Astor.
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Great Lie, The -- (Original Trailer)
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Bette Davis, believing her husband to be dead, bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby in The Great Lie (1941).

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