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Winter Meeting is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bretaigne Windust released in USA on 7 april 1948 with Bette Davis
Winter Meeting (1948)
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Add to a movie listWinter Meeting is a 1948 American drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust, written by Catherine Turney from the novel of the same title by Grace Zaring Stone (under the pseudonym Ethel Vance), and starring Bette Davis with Jim Davis, who would portray patriarch Jock Ewing in the television series Dallas three decades later.
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Disenchanted poet Susan Grieve, escorted by her friend Stacy Grant, meets embittered World War II naval hero Lieutenant Slick Novak at a Manhattan restaurant where a dinner party is being held in his honor. He is more interested in Susan than his blind date Peggy Markham and offers to take her home at the end of the evening. The two become better acquainted over coffee in Susan's apartment, and she initially resists but then succumbs to his charms when he tries to kiss her.Actors
Bette Davis
(Susan Grieve)
Jim Davis
(Slick Novak)
Janis Paige
(Peggy Markham)
John Hoyt
(Stacy Grant)
Florence Bates
(Mrs. Castle)
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