IN THIS OUR LIFE
(Warner Bros.)
|F the title of this film is what I think it is, a misquotation from As You Like It, I can think of no choice more incongruous; the life
described, in the Forest of Arden was exempt from public haunt; and enabled the Duke and his followers to find good in everything; the life of the Timberlake family as shown in the Warner Bros. film In This Our Life, looked about as near hell as anything I’ve ever seen on the screen. The situation is that Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis are presented as sisters, the first married to a young doctor (Dennis Morgan), the second engaged to a young lawyer (George Brent), But Bette Davis, the bad sister, runs off with the young doctor husband, makes him unhappy, drives him to drink and finally to suicide; Olivia de Havilland, the good sister, has meanwhile picked up her broken pieces and decided with George Brent, to make the most of what's left. But then the bad sister returns home and begins to queer as many pitches as possible, The thesis seems to be that all the people who took after the mother’s side of the family were no good, selfish, money-grabbers} and that all on the
other side were nice, soft people, full of integrity and good intentions, I don’t think families work out that way; and I think in this case the whole idea was utter and unrelieved hooey. In fact, the film’s only excuse for existence seems to me to be the superlative acting of Bette Davis-but it’s not being sentimental to remind her producers that she doesn’t necessarily have to portray nasty, neurotic types to prove she’s a good actress,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 238, 14 January 1944, Page 13
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290IN THIS OUR LIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 238, 14 January 1944, Page 13
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