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Old Acquaintance. Old Acquaintance is a 1943 American drama film released by Warner Bros. It was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay by John Van Druten, Lenore Coffee and Edmund Goulding was based on Van Druten's 1940 play of the same title .
Old Acquaintance: Directed by Vincent Sherman. With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder. Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
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- Drama, Romance
- Vincent Sherman
- 1943-11-27
Nov 26, 2020 · Old Acquaintance (1943)Writer Kit Marlowe possesses one thing all her own: literary acclaim. But the rest of her life is lived second-hand. Her melodramatic ...
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Old Acquaintance. (play) Old Acquaintance is a 1940 play by the British writer John Van Druten. [1] It is a three-act comedy, with a small cast and two settings. The story is a conflict between two women, childhood friends from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and now both successful writers. It is all conversation, with exits and entrances the only ...
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Every Woman Has A Ghost After another 10-year leap, during WWII, author Kit (Bette Davis) has agreed to meet Preston (John Loder), who left his wife in a failed attempt to win her, and she’s arranged for her young lover (Gig Young) to bring along Preston’s now-grown daughter (Dolores Moran), in Old Acquaintance, 1943.
- Vincent Sherman, Art Lueker
- Bette Davis
Jealous of best friend Kit, a critically acclaimed but financially unsuccessful author and playwright, Millie writes a novel, the first in a string of bestselling trashy novels. After eight years of neglect and taking a backseat to Millie's fame, her husband Preston leaves her. Another decade passes and Kit announces her intention of marrying ...
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Purchase Old Acquaintance on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Academy Award winner Bette Davis stars as the well-respected author Kitty Marlowe, who returns to her small town birthplace where her life becomes embroiled with a now-jealous Old Acquaintance. Despite Millie Drake's (Miriam Hopkins) life as a happy wife and mother, she becomes envious of Kitty's success -- and writes a trashy novel that is published with huge success. As Millie's fame soars and vastly eclipses ...
