Old Acquaintance (1943) – Rewatch

I hadn’t remembered watching this before, but once it started, it became immediately familiar. The previous time I had watched, I found Miriam Hopkins’s character way over the time. Now that I am more familiar with her other work, I now know it’s less the actress and more what the character called for. She’s an extremely histrionic, romance author and she’s costumed as if someone took the best author photos those novels. She’s wonderfully juxtaposed to smart and serene Bette Davis, composed in front of others even when facing heartbreak. In some ways they don’t make sense as lifelong friends and professional semi-rivals, but sometimes that’s what the best relationships look like from the outside.