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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.
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- Drama
- Edmund Goulding
- 1939-09-02
Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Since You Went Out West First scene after a history montage ending the Civil War and killing their former almost-mutual boyfriend, now-married Delia (Miriam Hopkins) visits the orphanage run by cousin Charlotte (Bette Davis), promoting her brother-in-law, Marlene Burnett the featured waif, in The Old Maid, 1939.
- Edmund Goulding, Jack Sullivan
- Bette Davis
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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. Clem enlists in the Union army and dies on the battlefield, but not before ...
Oct 7, 2011 · The Old Maid: Review. Of all the great works of 1939 no other film demonstrates the impact a tremendous acting talent has upon a mediocre tale so effectively as The Old Maid. In an otherwise standard melodrama Bette Davis raises so far above the material she leaves no doubt as to why she is considered the greatest actress the silver screen has ...
The Old Maid. (1939) NR 08/16/1939 (US) Drama 1h 35m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. Vividly, unforgettably, a woman's love starved soul is revealed. All those strange secrets she locks in her heart ... moments of rapture and of heartbreak ... longings that no man can fathom.
