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The Old Maid is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edmund Goulding released in USA on 2 september 1939 with Bette Davis
The Old Maid (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 2 september 1939
Length 1h35
Directed by Edmund Goulding
OriginUSA
Themes Films based on plays
Rating73%
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 title 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).
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Set during the American Civil War, the story focuses on Charlotte Lovell and her cousin Delia, whose wedding day is disrupted when her former fiance Clem Spender returns following a two-year absence. Delia proceeds to marry Jim Ralston, and Charlotte comforts Clem, who enlists in the Union Army and is later killed in battle. Shortly after his death, Charlotte discovers she is pregnant with Clem's child, and in order to escape the stigma of an illegitimate child, she journeys West to have her baby, a daughter she names Clementina (or "Tina").Actors
Bette Davis
(Charlotte Lovell)
Miriam Hopkins
(Delia Lovell Ralston)
George Brent
(Clem Spender)
Donald Crisp
(Doctor Lanskell)
Jane Bryan
(Clementina)
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