Great Lie, The (1941)

George Brent's marriage to concert pianist Mary Astor is annulled, allowing him to marry the one he really loves, Bette Davis, and Astor to pursue her career. Aviator Brent is then thought dead in a plane crash overseas. Astor (whose performance earned her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, her only recognition from the Academy!) learns she's pregnant by Brent and tells Davis, who then convinces Astor to let her adopt it and pretend it's her own. Though they've been rivals, they go away together to a remote location until Astor can give birth. Lots of wonderful (caustic) dialogue between the two ladies. Grant Mitchell plays Astor's manager; Jerome Cowan plays Brent's lawyer; Hattie McDaniel plays Davis's domestic help. Lucile Watson also appears. When Brent returns alive, will the identity of the infant's mother remain a secret? Directed by Edmund Goulding, based on Polan Banks's novel January Heights, with a screenplay by Lenore Coffee (Four Daughters (1938)).

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