Old Acquaintance

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Old Acquaintance, 1943.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Old Acquaintance, 1943.

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.

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.

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.

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