The Old Maid
1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
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.
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp · Jane Bryan · Louise Fazenda · Jerome Cowan · Janet Shaw · William Hopper · Rand Brooks
Soundtrack Max Steiner
Screenplay Casey Robinson · Zoe Akins · Edith Wharton
Cinematography Tony Gaudio
Original title The Old Maid
7.4
732 votes (FilmAffinity)
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