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 1942 Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.

In Richmond, Virginia, Asa Frank Craven and Lavinia Billie Burke ne 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 wifes 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 Roys 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.Roy encounters Fleming again after some time, and she encourages him to move on with his life. They soon begin dating. Roy refers a young black man, Parry Clay Ernest Anderson, to Fleming, and he hires him to work in his law office while he attends law school. Clay is the son of the Timberlake parents family maid, Minerva Clay Hattie McDaniel. ........

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