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. . . but Stanley and Roy are just lover-swapping sisters, IN THIS OUR LIFE shows us. Warner Bros. also uses LIFE to document a fact long suspected by most Americans: the USA's Corrupt Job-Killing Capitalist Oligarchs such as Charles Coburn's "William Fitzroy" here are Animalistic Amoral Sex Pervert Swindlers likely to tell X-Rated radio shock jockeys that they see their own daughters (or nieces) mostly as "fine pieces of (donkey)" that they HAVE (in William's case) or MAY have (in respect to alleged U.S. President #45) taken to bed. Speaking of Rump, it's hard NOT to see Warner Bros.' always prophetic prognosticators foretelling anyone other than Putin's Puppet with Coburn's Funny Uncle Willie character, or someone besides Kellyanne Conwoman filling the spike heels of Bette Davis' Stanley Tools-of-the-Trade. The incipient Race War being instigated Today by the Deplorable Rumpster Minority echoes Stanley's efforts to wipe away her serial-killing sins on Black Souls as LIFE moves on. With this cautionary tale, Warner warns we Americans of the (then) Far Future to fasten our seat belts--it's going to be a bumpy ride!

In Richmond, after the Great Depression, the industrialist Asa Timberlake (Frank Craven) is cheated by his brother-in-law and partner William Fitzroy (Charles Coburn) and loses his business to him. His spoiled daughter Stanley Timberlake (Bette Davis), who is the pride and joy of William, is going to marry the idealist lawyer Craig Fleming (George Brent). However, she flees to Baltimore with the surgeon Peter Kingsmill (Dennis Morgan), who is the husband of her sister Roy Timberlake (Olivia de Havilland). After a short period of happiness, Peter cannot afford to support the shopping of Stanley and commits suicide. Meanwhile Roy divorces from Peter and gets close to Craig that proposes to marry her. The black teenager Parry Clay (Ernest Anderson) that worked to Timberlake, dreams in becoming a lawyer, and Craig hires him to work in his office. Stanley returns home and unsuccessfully tries to seduce Craig, inviting him to have dinner with her in a tavern. However Craig does not show up and the upset Stanley drives back home at high speed. She hits and run a mother and her daughter and kills the girl. When the police comes to Asa's house, Stanly accuses Parry of driving her car and the youth is arrested and put in jail. What will happen to the innocent Parry?"In This Our Life" is a film directed by John Huston about a selfish and evil woman. His tight direction saves the dramatic and tense story from becoming a melodramatic soap opera. Bette Davis steals the show with a fantastic performance. The rest of the cast is also magnificent. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Nascida para o Mal" ("Born to the Evil")

Have many modern viewers (and some older ones) forgotten what constitutes a 'good' film? My wife and I had not seen or heard of this movie and were wondering why a seemingly major film had slipped by un-noticed...Last night we watched it on Fox Classics and now understand why.The studio and everyone associated with it must have run for cover when the critics of the day released their reviews. W.B. often put shows like this undercover following initial release, and little wonder.Pulitzer prize winning novelist Ellen Glasgow was appalled at what had been done to her story. Seems she also criticized Ms Davis's overwrought performance. This films Screenplay adaptation needed someone of the caliber of Casey Robinson to do it justice, instead it got the lesser Howard Koch. The task was too big. Bette Davis has also been quoted as calling it a "phony film"Being John Hustons second film (following his masterly 'Maltese Falcon') It would most likely have been selected by the studio under the terms of his contract. From the look of the outcome it was beneath him. This was often a major flaw with the 'Studio System'~ above average directors, being given average material, with their heart just not in it.Superb Director Of Photography Ernest Haller has given the film a great look, but cannot lift it above the inept script. Olivia de Haviland looks wonderful and turns in a believable performance as does Charles Coburn, along with a few supporting cast members the studio were promoting at the time.The usually deft composer Max Steiner on seeing the images he had to underscore must have realized this was likely to run into trouble. He's created an over imposing score that often gets in the way of the action. It tends to do battle with Bette Davis's over the top character. Huston seems not to have cared, just gave in and went along with it. Other problems were introduced when Huston was called away for war service, being replaced by Raoul Walsh whom Bette did not get along with. One of the films few redeeming factors was the positive treatment given to the African American characters. Quite rare at this time. Screenplay wise, those who enjoy mediocre TV Melodrama or 'soaps' (judging from other posts, there are many) will certainly be in their element, and won't understand some of these comments ~ for others it just won't work. This belongs in a similar class as 'The Gay Sisters', another feature from this era the studio rapidly placed under wraps.Thank heavens they bounced back with some of the truly masterly classics that followed...

Everything about this film is awesome, beginning with its cast and ending with a spectacular and appropriate ending! Bette Davis, Dennis Morgan, George Brent, Olivia De Havilland, Hattie McDaniel and Billie Burke are some of my favorite lead and character actors and actresses. I can understand the controversy over this picture when it was released simply because the depiction of Negro testimony v. white testimony was accurate for its time, and not far from the way the judicial system still works in certain areas of the United States. Ernest Parry should have received a supporting actor nomination, but that would have been an unrealistic expectation, since Hattie McDaniel had recently received a supporting actress Academy Award for her performance in "Gone With The Wind." I understand from some sources that there were complaints about B.D.'s hairstyles and clothing, but she wasn't playing someone that was filthy rich, as in many of her roles, but a instead a southern gold digger.