Old Acquaintance

The film stars Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Roscoe Karns and Anne Revere.The John Van Druten play upon which the film is based premiered at the Morosco Theatre in New York City on December 23, 1940, before running for 170 performances.The play was staged by Auriol Lee and designed by Richard Whorf, and it starred Jane Cowl, Peggy Wood and Kent Smith.[3] In 1948, Waxman made a concert arrangement of score's main thematic material under the title Elegy for Strings and Harp(s) in memory of Leo B. Forbstein, head of the Warner Brothers music department, who died on March 16, 1948.[1] Bosley Crowther, a film reviewer for The New York Times, found the friendship between the two lead characters implausible."As a consequence," he wrote, "we have the tedious spectacle in this overdressed, overstuffed film of a supposedly intelligent woman writer spending her life being loyal to a girlhood friend who mints a fortune with trashy fiction and is vain, selfish, jealous and false to her.
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