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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
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.
- Edmund Goulding, Jack Sullivan
- Bette Davis
After disappearing for two years, Clem Spender (George Brent) returns on the day his former fiancée, Delia (Miriam Hopkins), is marrying another man. Her cousin Charlotte (Bette Davis) sneaks ...
- (39)
- Edmund Goulding
- Drama
- Bette Davis
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was roundly condemned by critics, who felt that Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour was more deserving, but had lost because of its lesbian theme.
Novel. Casey Robinson. Screenplay. The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Directed by Edmund Goulding. 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. Of these has the year’s finest picture been woven!
