The Old Maid (1939) | |
| Director(s) | Edmund Goulding |
| Producer(s) | Henry Blanke (associate), Hal B. Wallis (executive) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Civil War, Old South |
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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
on Aug 16, 2018 From Comet Over HollywoodIn 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, tha... Read full article
The Old Maid (1939) (2)
By Beatrice on Jan 24, 2014 From Flickers in TimeThe 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).
By Dawn Sample on Oct 18, 2012 From Noir and Chick FlicksThe 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 Zo? 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 promine... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE OLD MAID (1939)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 18, 2012 From Virtual ViragoIn 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)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 18, 2012 From Virtual ViragoIn 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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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...
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Facts about
The 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened at the Empire Theatre in New York on Jan. 7, 1935 and ran for 305 performances. The leads were played by Judith Anderson and Helen Menken. Marjorie Lord, who later gained fame as the wife of Danny Thomas on TV's The Danny Thomas Show, was a replacement cast member in a supporting role. Producer-Director Ernst Lubitsch bought the rights to the play, intending to star both Judith Anderson and Helen Menken in a Paramount production, but he sold the rights to Warner Bros. in Jan. 1939.
To get the effects of aging, Bette Davis didn't wear any eye makeup or lipstick, and makeup artist Perc Westmore used a pale, ashen base on her face.
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