The Loves of Edgar Allen Poe

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The Loves of Edgar Allen Poe ★★ 1942

A bland biographical drama about young Poe's adoption, his treatment at the hands of his foster father, his rejection by a woman for a more well off man, his marriage to his first cousin, and his early death from alcoholism. 67m/B VHS . Linda Darnell, Shepperd Strudwick, Virginia Gilmore, Jane Darwell, Mary Howard; D: Harry Lachman.