Winter Meeting

Exposition and character sketching for Bette Davis as uptown Manhattan poet-volunteer Susan, who’s brought her man-about-town friend Stacy (John Hoyt), whom we know was only pretending to be lost on the subway, to her apartment to recover, early in WInter Meeting, 1948.

Poet Susan (Bette Davis) is acting as the date for socialite friend Stacy (John Hoyt) who’s set up his sexy secretary Peggy (Janis Paige) with bored WWII naval hero Slick, James (Jim) Davis (later TV’s Jock Ewing), in his first scene in his widely-panned movie debut, Winter Meeting, 1948.

The morning after younger Navy hero “Slick” Novak (James a.k.a. Jim Davis) chose her over the dishy secretary with whom he’d been set up, their physical contact having ended with a fade-to-black, somewhat repressed New York poet Susan (Bette Davis) greets him again, in WInter Meeting, 1948.

A repressed poetess (Bette Davis) and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems in Winter Meeting (1948).