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Overview
Release Date:
2 September 1939 (USA) moreTagline:
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!Plot:
Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Very Good Period Soap Opera moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Bette Davis | ... | Charlotte Lovell | |
| Miriam Hopkins | ... | Delia Lovell Ralston | |
| George Brent | ... | Lt. Clem Spender | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Dr. Lanskell | |
| Jane Bryan | ... | Clementina | |
| Louise Fazenda | ... | Dora | |
| James Stephenson | ... | Jim Ralston | |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Joseph Ralston | |
| William Lundigan | ... | Lanning Halsey | |
| Cecilia Loftus | ... | Grandmother Henrietta Lovell | |
| Rand Brooks | ... | Jim Ralston Jr. | |
| Janet Shaw | ... | Dee Ralston Ward | |
| William Hopper | ... | John Ward (as DeWolf Hopper) |
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95 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 7 January 1935 and had 305 performance. The leads were played by Judith Anderson and Helen Menken. Ernst Lubitsch bought rights to the play, intending to star both Anderson and Menken in a Paramount production, but Warner Bros. bought the rights from him in January 1939. moreSoundtrack:
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"The Old Maid" is a lovely and picturesque film, full of the tear-jerking elements that you may expect with the story, full of lies and love and illegitimate children. Bette Davis gives an admirably restrained performance, and Miriam Hopkins even manages to elicit a measure of sympathy toward the end. The only bad thing about the film was the casting of Jane Bryan as Bette's illegitimate daughter, an uncharismatic and unattractive actress whose bad acting is saved from ruining the film by Miss Davis and Miss Hopkins.