OLD ACQUAINTANCE

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• Release Year: 1943
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: Writer Kit Marlow (Bette Davis) possesses one thing all her own: literary acclaim. But the rest of her life is lived second-hand. Her melodramatic best friend Millie (Miriam Hopkins), who pens trashy potboilers, has the husband Kit loves and child Kit yearns to call her own. Yet through 20 years of friendship, Kit keeps her claws sheathed as volatile Millie smashes crockery and has the vapors. Then Kit meets an exciting new man, Millie throws a tantrum - and the claws finally come out.; ; Often jilarious and always moving, Old Acquaintance (remade as 1981's Rich and Famous) is the delicious tale of two lifetimes. Davis and Hopkins are simply magnificent as they love, blame, battle and forgive their way through a dead-on depiction of what we all gain - and lose - in a lasting friendship.
• Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Phillip Reed, Roscoe Karns, Anne Revere, Esther Dale, Abigail Adams, Gordon B. Clarke, Jimmy Conlin, Ann Doran, Sam Harris, Marjorie Hoshelle, Charles Jordan, Fred Kelsey, Lucille La Marr, Mike Lally, Frank Mayo, Jack Mower, Kathleen O'Malley, Harriet Olsen, Virginia Patton, Herbert Rawlinson, Ronald R. Rondell, Francine Rufo, Timmy Sabor, Dorothy Schoemer, Charles Sullivan, Philip Van Zandt, Frances Ward, Lottie Williams, Eric Wilton, Vincent Sherman, John Van Druten, Lenore J. Coffee, Edmund Goulding
• Director: Vincent Sherman
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment Co
• Media Format: Movie