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In This Our Life

In This Our Life
In This Our Life poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by John Huston
Produced by Hal B. Wallis
Screenplay by Howard Koch
Based on In This Our Life
1941 novel
by Ellen Glasgow
Starring Bette Davis
Olivia de Havilland
Charles Coburn
George Brent
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography Ernest Haller
Edited by William Holmes
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • May 8, 1942 (1942-05-08)
Running time
97 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1.7 million (US rentals)

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.

Completed in 1942, 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.

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.


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