These Three

Ben Mankiewicz introduces These Three, 1936.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces These Three, 1936.

Critical moment in which Joe (Joel McCrea) awakens, Aunt Lily (Catherine Doucet) intrudes, Martha (Miriam Hopkins) gets unwelcome news and student Mary (Bonita Granville) lurks, in William Wyler's These Three, 1936.

Opening credits then graduation where floozy Aunt Lily (Catherine Doucet) chases down neice Martha (Miriam Hopkins) and pal Karen (Merle Oberon), in Samuel Goldwyn's These Three, 1936, script by Lillian Hellman from her play.

Martha (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen (Merle Oberon) discover Joe (Joel McCrea) at the house they'll eventually turn into a school, in Samuel Goldwyn's These Three, 1936, adapted by Lillian Hellman from her play "The Children's Hour."

Scandal destroys the lives of two small-town schoolteachers in William Wyler's adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, These Three (1936).