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Old Acquaintance - (Original Trailer)

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    Old Acquaintance - (Original Trailer)

    "Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives in Old Acquaintance (1943) starring Bette Davis."

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Old Acquaintance - (Original Trailer)
Old Acquaintance
Old Acquaintance - (Original Trailer)
"Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives in Old Acquaintance (1943) starring Bette Davis.">
Vincent Sherman on Bette Davis - (A TCM...
Vincent Sherman on Bette Davis
Director Vincent Sherman recalls Bette...
Vincent Sherman on Bette Davis - (A TCM Featurette)
Director Vincent Sherman recalls Bette Davis behind the scenes of their movie Old Acquaintance (1943).>
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Fatal...
In New York after the narrative leap in which Millie (Miriam...
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Fatal Beauty
In New York, years later during which time Millie (Miriam Hopkins) also becomes a best-selling novelist, she scolds husband Preston (John Loder), who retreats with mentor, friend, rival and baby-sitter Kit (Bette Davis), dropping his own bombshell, in Vincent Sherman's Old Acuqaintance, 1943.>
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You...
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Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Know Kit
At the train station in home-town Birchfield (no state is mentioned), childhood pal Millie (Miriam Hopkins), with newsman Charlie (Roscoe Karns), greets local girl turned famous novelist Kit (Bette Davis), her fan club intervening, in Vincent Sherman's 1943 Warner Bros. hit Old Acquaintance.>
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