Talk about one-way relationships! Hopkins does nothing but take, sulk, rage and be petty and childish - no wonder the final toast is just to old 'acquaintances' rather than friends. The daughter is quite nicely written (by John van Druten and Lenore Coffee) as being a bit Hopkins but luckily a lot of Bette.
She, by the way, is Dolores Moran (also To Have and Have Not) - she would only have been about seventeen. Didn't have much of a film career (controlling husband).
Also, what I would really have liked to have known was - how did Kit's play turn out? And her second book? I get why she's sidelined - in career terms she's not nearly as important as Millie - no, of course not. Well, I want to know.
Sol Polito's camerawork is suitably polished and Franz Waxman's score is beautiful.
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