In This Our Life

In This Our Life
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Huston
Raoul Walsh (uncredited)
Screenplay byHoward Koch
Based onIn This Our Life
1941 novel
by Ellen Glasgow
Produced byHal B. Wallis
StarringBette Davis
Olivia de Havilland
George Brent
Dennis Morgan
Charles Coburn
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byWilliam Holmes
Music byMax Steiner
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • May 8, 1942 (1942-05-08)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$713,000[1]
Box office$2.8 million[1]

In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film, the second to be directed by John Huston. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow. The cast included the established stars Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters and rivals in romance and life. Raoul Walsh also worked as director, taking over when Huston was called away for a war assignment after the United States entered World War II, but he was uncredited. This film was the third of six films that de Havilland and Davis starred in together.

Completed in 1942, the film was disapproved in 1943 for foreign release by the wartime Office of Censorship, because it dealt truthfully with racial discrimination as part of its plot.

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 22 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551