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Old Acquaintance

Year:

1943

Duration:

110 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Vincent Sherman

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1943-11-27

Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Kathleen O'Malley

Bette Davis

Kit Marlowe

Miriam Hopkins

Millie Drake

Gig Young

Rudd Kendall

John Loder

Preston Drake

Dolores Moran

Deirdre Drake

Phillip Reed

Lucian Grant (as Philip Reed)

Roscoe Karns

Charlie Archer

Anne Revere

Belle Carter

Esther Dale

Harriet

Abigail Adams

College Girl (uncredited)

Gordon B. Clarke

Usher at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin

Frank - Photographer (uncredited)

Ann Doran

Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

Sam Harris

Army Major (uncredited)

Marjorie Hoshelle

Margaret Kemp - Kit's Fanclub Leader (uncredited)

Charles Jordan

Bootlegger Selling Gin (uncredited)

Fred Kelsey

Train Conductor (uncredited)

Lucille La Marr

College Girl (uncredited)

Mike Lally

Nightclub Table Extra (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Army Officer (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Army Officer (uncredited)

Harriet Olsen

College Girl (uncredited)

Virginia Patton

College Girl (uncredited)

Herbert Rawlinson

Red Cross Chairman (uncredited)

Ronald R. Rondell

Garden Center Headwaiter (uncredited)

Francine Rufo

Deirdre as a Child (uncredited)

Timmy Sabor

College Girl (uncredited)

Dorothy Schoemer

College Girl (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Philip Van Zandt

Hotel Night Manager (uncredited)

Frances Ward

College Girl (uncredited)

Lottie Williams

Millie's Maid at Party (uncredited)

Eric Wilton

Waiter (uncredited)

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Trivia

The Broadway play opened on December 23, 1940 at the Morosco Theatre and closed 17 May 1941 after 170 performances. The opening night cast included Jane Cowl as Kit, Peggy Wood as Millie and Kent Smith as Rudd Kendall. Warner Bros. purchased the rights to the play for $75,000.

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At the beginning of the "Wonder Woman" episode "Wonder Woman In Hollywood" from 1977, a few vintage Warner Bros clips of Hollywood are shown. One of these shows a cinema from the main street with marquees for "Old Acquaintance".

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This is the film with the often shown, camp classic scene of Bette Davis calmly grabbing Miriam Hopkins by the shoulders, vigorously shaking her, throwing her down into a chair, and then calmly saying with a clipped, sarcastic edge: "Sorry". Bette Davis later admitted she immensely enjoyed playing that scene.

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Goofs

As the group of college girls drive Kit away, Millie turns her head and calls out Kit's name but her lips do not move.

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In the bedroom scene with Preston, Kit is on the telephone with Julia Broadbank, Preston is holding her hand, then Deidre runs in and sits on her lap. Both of Kit's arms are around her, it's a tight two-shot. Then it cuts to the master-shot and Kit suddenly has a lit cigarette in her hand which she smokes through the time Deidre leaves the room all the way until she is talking to Millie and Miss Carter in the Living room.

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When Kit enters house after Millie runs up stairs near beginning of film, backdrop of house across the street changes from shot to shot.

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Quotes

Kit Marlowe: [responding to a question about Millie's daughter Deidre] Well, she's really partly mine anyway. I was at the hospital when she was born. As a matter of fact, she gave me her first smile. Her mother said it was gas.

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Kit Marlowe: Deidre, come out from behind that screen.

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Kit Marlowe: I'd better get out of here, Millie, before I do something I'll be very sorry for.

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