In This Our Life

In This Our Life

1942 | 1h 37m | Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Spoiled heiress Stanley Timberlake seduces and steals her sister Roy's husband, driving him to alcoholism and suicide. Returning home, she kills a mother and daughter in a hit-and-run, then blames the crime on an innocent servant while feeling no remorse.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

John Huston

CAST

Bette Davis

Olivia de Havilland

George Brent

Dennis Morgan

Charles Coburn

Frank Craven

Billie Burke

Hattie McDaniel

Lee Patrick

PRODUCERS

Hal B. Wallis

WRITERS

Howard E. Koch

Ellen Glasgow

Host Intros

01:34
Dave Karger Intro -- In This Our Life (1942)
Intro Aired: Jul 2016
Guest host Dave Karger introduces In This Our Life, 1942.

Related Videos

In This Our Life (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Clever With The Knife
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Director John Huston playing complex tensions, rich uncle William (Charles Coburn) with Peter (Dennis Morgan), husband of his niece Roy (Olivia de Havilland), whose engaged sister Stanley (Bette Davis) is, secretly, about to run off with Peter on the day of her own wedding, in In This Our Life, 1942.
In This Our Life (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing Else Matters
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Wealthy uncle William (Charles Coburn) talking at his brother-in-law Asa (Frank Craven) about his headstrong and engaged daughter Stanley (Bette Davis), who makes her first appearance outside with Peter (Dennis Morgan) whose wife, her sister Roy (Olivia DeHavilland) knows nothing of their affair, in John Huston's In This Our Life, 1942.
02:09
In This Our Life (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Could Give Up Drinking
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Shopping with her friend (Lee Patrick) in their new Virginia town, Stanley (Bette Davis) finds surgeon husband Peter (Dennis Morgan, the ex-husband of her sister, with whom she only recently ran-off), in bad shape, John Huston directing from the Ellen Glasgow novel, from In This Our Life, 1942.
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In This Our Life (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Bright Red With A Black Feather
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George Brent as lawyer Craig has all-but confirmed that his fianceè Stanley (Bette Davis, not seen), daughter of Asa (Frank Craven), has run away with the husband of his other daughter Roy (Olivia de Havilland), who herself takes the news with remarkable composure, in John Hustons In This Our Life, 1942.
In This Our Life - (Original Trailer)
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A neurotic Southerner steals her sister's husband in In This Our Life (1942), starring Bette Davis & Olivia de Havilland.

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