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In This Our Life is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Huston released in USA on 16 may 1942 with Bette Davis

In This Our Life (1942)

In This Our Life
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Released in USA 16 may 1942
Length 1h37
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating72% 3.6458253.6458253.6458253.6458253.645825

In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film, the second to be directed by John Huston. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow. The cast included the established stars Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters and the romantic and life rivals. Raoul Walsh also worked as director, taking over when Huston was called away for a war assignment after the United States entered World War II, but he was uncredited. This film was third of six films that de Havilland and Davis starred together.

Completed in 1942 after the US had joined the war, the film was disapproved in 1943 for foreign release by the wartime Office of Censorship, because it dealt truthfully with racial discrimination as part of its plot.

Synopsis

In Richmond, Virginia, Asa (Frank Craven) and Lavinia (Billie Burke) (née Fitzroy) Timberlake gave their two daughters male names: Roy (Olivia de Havilland) and Stanley (Bette Davis). The movie opens with the young women as adults. Asa Timberlake has recently lost his piece of a tobacco company to his former partner William Fitzroy (Charles Coburn), his wife's brother. Roy, a successful interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill (Dennis Morgan). Stanley is engaged to progressive attorney Craig Fleming (George Brent). The night before her wedding, Stanley runs off with Roy's husband Peter. Fleming becomes and stays depressed, but Roy soon decides to keep a positive attitude. After Roy divorces Peter, he and Stanley marry and move to Baltimore.

Actors

Bette Davis

(Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill)
Olivia de Havilland

(Roy Timberlake)
Charles Coburn

(William Fitzroy)
George Brent

(Craig Fleming)
Frank Craven

(Asa Timberlake)
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