These Three

College friends Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) and Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) run a thriving rural Massachusetts girls’ school. Karen is in lovewith local doctor Joe Cardin (Joel McCrea), and they plan to marry soon.Then an incorrigible, vindictive student tells a shocking fib…and the lives and futures of Karen, Martha and Joe come crashing down in one of Hollywood’s most gripping depictions of what writer Lillian Hellman simplycalled “the power of a lie.” Reshaping her daring 1934 play The Children’s Hour into the 1936 movie These Three, Hellman may have changed the substance of the lie (from lesbianism on stage to a romantic triangle on film) to pacify censors, but lost none of her narrative’s compelling tension.