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Old Acquaintance - Scene Stills
Here are a number of scene stills from Warner Bros' Old Acquaintance (1943), starring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, and Gig Young.

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Sabotage (1936) -- (Movie Clip) If The Arsenal Lose We know grocer Ted (John Loder) is a policeman, Sylvia Sidney at the ticket box doesn't know the guys (William Dewhurst, Peter Bull, then Torin Thatcher) visiting her husband (Oscar Homolka) are terrorists, her young brother (Desmond Tester) also an innocent, in Hitchcock's Sabotage, 1936.
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Fatal Beauty In New York, years later during which time Millie (Miriam Hopkins) also becomes a best-selling novelist, she scolds husband Preston (John Loder), who retreats with mentor, friend, rival and baby-sitter Kit (Bette Davis), dropping his own bombshell, in Vincent Sherman's Old Acuqaintance, 1943.
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Every Woman Has A Ghost After another 10-year leap, during WWII, author Kit (Bette Davis) has agreed to meet Preston (John Loder), who left his wife in a failed attempt to win her, and she’s arranged for her young lover (Gig Young) to bring along Preston’s now-grown daughter (Dolores Moran), in Old Acquaintance, 1943.
Gentleman Jim (1942) -- (Movie Clip) If You Were My Girl Errol Flynn as title character Jim Corbett, still just a San Francisco local hero, stands by as Vicky Ware (Alexis Smith) meets the touring world champ Sullivan (Ward Bond), then tangles with her and her less virile boyfriend (John Loder), in Raoul Walsh’s fanciful bio-pic Gentleman Jim, 1942.
How Green Was My Valley (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I Shall Never Return Powerful opening from Richard Llewellyn's novel, Irving Pichel as grown Huw (Roddy McDowall) narrating, Best Director winner John Ford introducing father Donald Crisp, brothers (John Loder, Patric Knowles, Richard Fraser, John Monks, Evan S. Evans) and sister (Maureen O'Hara), in How Green Was My Valley, 1941.
How Green Was My Valley (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I First Saw Bron Irving Pichel's narration as the grown Huw (Roddy McDowall) continues, introducing Bronwyn (Anna Lee) to the Morgans as bride to brother Ivor (Patric Knowles), mother (Sara Algood) and dad (Donald Crisp) featured along with sister Maureen O'Hara (who would name her daughter Bronwyn!), early in John Ford's Welsh family saga How Green Was My Valley, 1941.
How Green Was My Valley (1941) -- (Movie Clip) The Men Will Come Out In turn-of-the-century South Wales, Morgan (Donald Crisp) is a senior coal miner, not as angry over wage cuts as his sons (James Monks, John Loder, Richard Fraser, Evan S. Evans) who walk out amicably, in John Ford's film from the Richard Llewellyn novel, How Green Was My Valley, 1941.
Passage To Marseille (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Never Seen A Stronger Face Captain Freycinet (Claude Rains) giving a look at his Free French air squadron to newsman Manning (John Loder), who is impressed by a gunner named Matrac (Humphrey Bogart), early in Michael Curtiz's Passage To Marseille, 1944.
Now, Voyager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Not Boston, You Know Shedding fiance` Elliott (John Loder), Charlotte (Bette Davis) with her party hosts (Charlotte Wynters, Don Douglas), is surprised to encounter Jerry (Paul Henreid), with whom she conspires to not-discuss their past romance, in Now, Voyager, 1942, Irving Rapper directing.
Sabotage (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Act Of God Director Alfred Hitchcock's crafty opening, Oscar Homolka's role not altogether clear, his wife (Sylvia Sidney) at the ticket box at the cinema, John Loder the snarky grocer next door, from Sabotage, 1936, loosely based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
Old Acquaintance (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Know Kit At the train station in home-town Birchfield (no state is mentioned), childhood pal Millie (Miriam Hopkins), with newsman Charlie (Roscoe Karns), greets local girl turned famous novelist Kit (Bette Davis), her fan club intervening, in Vincent Sherman's 1943 Warner Bros. hit Old Acquaintance.
Adventure In Iraq -- (Movie Clip) Not In Cold Blood The Nazi-friendly Sheik (Paul Cavanagh) explaining to stranded Allied guests Doug (Warren Douglas), Tess (Ruth Ford) and George (John Loder) that he'll have to sacrifice them, in Adventure In Iraq, 1943.

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