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They Were Sisters

by Dorothy Whippleliterary work· published 1943

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They Were Sisters is a 1943 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. Three sisters marry shortly after the First World War and experience wildly differing experiences of family life over the next twenty years. In 1945 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray and Anne Crawford. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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They Were Sisters was adapted into a 1945 film.

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    They Were Sisters
    1945 · film · 115 min · dir. Arthur Crabtree · IMDb ↗
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    The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.