In This Our Life
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 rivals in romance and life. 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 the third of six films that de Havilland and Davis starred in together.
Plot
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). One evening, during the week before her wedding, Stanley runs off with Roy's husband, Peter. Craig becomes depressed, but Roy decides to keep a positive, although somewhat hardened, attitude. After Roy divorces Peter, he and Stanley (Bette Davis) marry and move to Baltimore.
Cast
- Bette Davis
- Billie Burke
- Charles Coburn
- Dennis Morgan
- Eddie Acuff
- Eddy Chandler
- Edward Fielding
- Frank Craven
- Fred Kelsey
- George Brent
- Hattie McDaniel
- John Hamilton
- Lee Patrick
- Olivia de Havilland
- Ruth Ford
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Walter Baldwin
- Walter Brooke
- Walter Huston
- William B. Davidson
- William Forrest
More details
| author | Howard Koch John Huston |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Baltimore |
| director | John Huston |
| editor | William Holmes |
| genre | drama romance |
| keywords | abandon date district attorney drink drive engage even fatal accident former partner hide how to interior decorator kill law school life insurance married park bench police custody wed young daughter young women |
| musicBy | Max Steiner |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |