Cotten in ‘Went Away’
In Charles Champlin’s appreciation “Joseph Cotten: The Film Actor and the Gentleman” (Feb. 8), he mentions that Cotten played “the steadying father seeing his family through World War II” in “Since You Went Away.”
Champlin should take another look. The father never appears. He is overseas and missing in action. Cotten plays his best friend, a naval officer who visits the girls.
JERRY MARTIN, Santa Monica
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