 Sixteen years after he directed this version of "The Letter,"  William Wyler made his television debut directing a live version of  "The Letter" featuring Siobhan McKenna, John Mills, Michael Rennie,  and Anna May Wong in the roles taken earlier by Davis, Marshall,  Stephenson, and Sondergaard. Some of the censorship that had  affected the 1940 version was eased for this TV version. (For  example, Hammonds "Eurasian wife" in 1940 was permitted to be, as  in the play and 1929 film, his Chinese mistress.)