Old Acquaintance
1943
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- The Old Maid is an amazing film. It is about the arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever. Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins give incredible performances. The screenplay is well written. Edmund Goulding did a great job directing this movie.
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Zoe Atkins, and novel by Edith Wharton, THE OLD MAID is definitely prime Bette Davis drama. Of her four top-releases of 1939, with DARK VICTORY being her most admired (even by Davis herself), THE OLD MAID is a superb production that, in later years has become one of her least televised and revived.
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The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1935 Pulitzer Prize -winning play of the same name by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella The Old Maid: the Fifties (taken from the collection of novellas Old New York).
Oct 7, 2011 · Don’t get me wrong The Old Maid is a very good film with the very best of production values including a superb cast (a roguish George Brent, the wise and fatherly Donald Crisp, and a catty Miriam Hopkins), a gorgeous antebellum set design, lush period costumes, and an exceptional pedigree.
The Old Maid: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp. The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
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- Drama
- Edmund Goulding
- 1939-09-02
The Old Maid was one of the great films--a financial and critical success--in a very impressive year in film history. So much so that Davis and Hopkins were given a rematch at Warner Brothers, as battling authors in Old Acquaintance (1943).
- Edmund Goulding, Jack Sullivan
- Bette Davis
Aug 16, 2018 · Bette Davis made four movies in 1939 and is magnificent. It’s almost amazing that so many good films could be released in 1939. “The Old Maid” is one of two films Davis made with Miriam Hopkins, the other was “Old Acquaintance” (1943). Davis and Hopkins’s films are notable as it seems the two actresses had a greater feud than what ...
A well-oiled assembly of betrayals, vendettas, and maternal passion plays. Bette Davis at the peak of her acting chops, a brilliant, melodramatic role. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer,...
