Gail Russell and Cornelia Otis Skinner
I don't know why I never noticed this before......
In February of 1944, "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" featured Gail Russell PORTRAYING the youthful Cornellia Otis Skinner.
Then in September of the same year, the two women were CASTMATES in "The Univited".
[Took me almost as long to realize that jazz standard "Stella by Starlight" had its origin in a spooky ghost-story movie.]