The Old Maid (1939) |
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| Director(s) | Edmund Goulding |
| Producer(s) | Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Civil War, Old South |
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The Old Maid
Released
1939
Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Lovell)
The Old Maid
Released
1939
Miriam Hopkins
(as Delia Lovell Ralston)
The Old Maid
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1939
George Brent
(as Lt. Clem Spender)
The Old Maid
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1939
Donald Crisp
(as Dr. Lanskell)
The Old Maid
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1939
Jane Bryan
(as Clementina)
The Old Maid
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1939
Louise Fazenda
(as Dora)
The Old Maid
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1939
James Stephenson
(as Jim Ralston)
The Old Maid
Released
1939
Jerome Cowan
(as Joseph Ralston)
The Old Maid Overview:
The Old Maid (1939) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke.
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Watching 1939: The Old Maid
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th... Read full article
The Old Maid (1939) (2)
The Old Maid Directed by Edmund Goulding Written by Casey Robinson based on the stage play by Zoe Akins and the novel by Edith Wharton 1939/USA Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental It’s not a bad movie but this tear-jerker did not particularly move me. During the Civil War, Delia Lovell (... Read full article
The Old Maid (1939).
The Old Maid (1939). Director: 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. On the day of Delia Lovell's wedding to socially promin... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE OLD MAID (1939)
In 1938 Bette Davis had starred in Jezebel as a Southern belle whose unconventional behavior brought her misery and loneliness. In 1939, Davis and a number of her Jezebel cohorts returned for another Civil War love story in The Old Maid, in which Davis plays a Northern debutante whose unconventional... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE OLD MAID (1939)
In 1938 Bette Davis had starred in Jezebel as a Southern belle whose unconventional behavior brought her misery and loneliness. In 1939, Davis and a number of her Jezebel cohorts returned for another Civil War love story in The Old Maid, in which Davis plays a Northern debutante whose unconventional... Read full article
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The Old Maid Quotes:
Delia Lovell Ralston: My dear.
Charlotte Lovell: A ridiculous, narrow-minded old maid. What else can she ever think of me?
Delia Lovell Ralston: Poor Charlotte.
Charlotte Lovell: Oh, but you needn't pity me. Because she's really mine. If she considers me an old maid, it's because I've deliberately made myself one in her eyes. I've done it from the beginning so she wouldn't have the least suspicion. I've practised everything I've ever had to say to her, if it was important, so that I'd sound like an old maid aunt talking. Not her mother.
Delia Lovell Ralston: Well, after all, darling, there isn't anything important to say to her now. She has every attribute of a modern successful woman - she's healthy, she's young, she's gay, she's attractive...