In This Our Life
In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters and rivals in romance and life Stanley and Roy Timberlake. This was the third of six films in which de Havilland and Davis starred together. The film was directed mostly by John Huston, in his second film, but when Huston was called to a war assignment, an uncredited Raoul Walsh completed the film. The screenplay was written by Howard Koch based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow.
Plot
In Richmond, Virginia, Asa and Lavinia Timberlake have two daughters with male names, Roy and Stanley. Roy, a successful interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill. Stanley is engaged to progressive attorney Craig Fleming. One evening, with days until her wedding, Stanley runs off with her sister's husband Peter. Craig becomes depressed, but Roy decides to keep a positive, although somewhat hardened, attitude. After Roy divorces Peter, he and Stanley 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 hide how to interior decorator jail kill law school life insurance married park bench question wed young daughter |
| musicBy | Max Steiner |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |