In This Our Life

In This Our Life
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Huston
Raoul Walsh (uncredited)
Screenplay byHoward Koch
Based onIn This Our Life
1941 novel
by Ellen Glasgow
Produced byHal B. Wallis (executive producer)
David Lewis (associate producer)
StarringBette Davis
Olivia de Havilland
George Brent
Dennis Morgan
Charles Coburn
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byWilliam Holmes
Music byMax Steiner
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • May 8, 1942 (1942-05-08)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$713,000
Box office$2.8 million

In This Our Life is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters and rivals in romance and life (the third of six films in which de Havilland and Davis starred together). The film was directed mostly by John Huston, in his second film, but when Huston was called to a war assignment, an uncredited Raoul Walsh completed the film. The screenplay was written by Howard Koch based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow.

Completed in 1942, the film was rejected in 1943 for foreign release by the wartime Office of Censorship because it deals truthfully with racial discrimination in its plot.