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The Old Maid (1939)
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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. Director:Edmund Goulding |
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Delia Lovell Ralston
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George Brent | ... |
Lt. Clem Spender
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Donald Crisp | ... | |
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Clementina
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Louise Fazenda | ... |
Dora
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James Stephenson | ... |
Jim Ralston
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Jerome Cowan | ... |
Joseph Ralston
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William Lundigan | ... |
Lanning Halsey
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Cecilia Loftus | ... |
Grandmother Henrietta Lovell
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Rand Brooks | ... |
Jim Ralston Jr.
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Janet Shaw | ... | |
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William Hopper | ... |
John Ward
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Rod Cameron | ... |
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Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg leaving Charlotte an unwed mother. She and her daughter Tina, presumably an orphan, move in with Delia who legally adopts the girl. Charlotte watches her daughter grow up and get married, never able to claim her as her own. CORRECTION; Delia breaks her engagement to Clem, in favor of wealthy Jim. Cousin Charlotte comforts Clem, and becomes pregnant. Clem dies in the war before he can marry her, and Charlotte raises her daughter as a "foundling." When Jim's brother, Joe, falls in love with Charlotte, Delia, out of spiteful jealousy, destroys the forthcoming wedding, and eventually takes Charlotte's child from her. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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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!Genres:
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(USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Velha Ama See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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1.37 : 1
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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.
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(1818) (uncredited)
Music by Franz Gruber
Played as background music at Christmas See more »
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Humphrey Bogart was originally cast as the male lead, but dismissed after four days' filming. See more »Goofs
Continuity: The scene where Delia has come to the orphanage to speak with Charlotte, we can see Charlotte's sleeves change from rolled up to down several times within the shot. See more »Quotes
Charlotte Lovell: She thinks I can't understand her. She considers me an old maid.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.
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Soundtracks
"Silent Night, Holy Night"(1818) (uncredited)
Music by Franz Gruber
Played as background music at Christmas See more »
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