Bette Davis
Charlotte Lovell
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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).
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.
In the 1860's, on the day of Delia Lovell's wedding to the stuffy but socially prominent Jim Ralston, the impulsive Clem Spender, to whom Delia had been engaged, reappears after a two-year absence.
In this tangled tale of life and love unsatisfied, when Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin, Charlotte.
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. After a two-year absence, Clem Spender returns home on the very day that his former fiancée, Delia, is marrying another man.
Novel. Casey Robinson. Screenplay. The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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