In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film 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.
Asa and Lavinia Timberlake are the parents of two daughters christened with male names. Roy, a successful interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill, while Stanley is engaged to attorney Craig Fleming. The night before their wedding, Stanley runs off ...
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In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film 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.
Asa and Lavinia Timberlake are the parents of two daughters christened with male names. Roy, a successful interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill, while Stanley is engaged to attorney Craig Fleming. The night before their wedding, Stanley runs off with Peter, who eventually is divorced by his wife, leaving him free to marry her sister.
Roy begins dating the jilted Craig, who hires Parry Clay, the son of Timberlake maid Minerva, to work in his office while Parry attends law school. William Fitzroy, Lavinia's brother and Asa's former partner in a tobacco business, dotes on his niece Stanley with an affection that borders on the unnatural. He suggests he is willing to retain Craig as his attorney if he will stop representing the poor. When Craig refuses Roy, impressed by his ethics, agrees...
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