The Old Maid
The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella The Old Maid: the Fifties (taken from the collection of novellas Old New York).
Plot
Set during the American Civil War, the story focuses on Charlotte Lovell and her cousin Delia, whose wedding day is disrupted when her former fiancé Clem Spender returns following a two-year absence. Delia proceeds to marry Jim Ralston, and Charlotte comforts Clem, who enlists in the Union Army and is later killed in battle. Shortly after his death, Charlotte discovers she is pregnant with Clem's child, and in order to escape the stigma of an illegitimate child, she journeys West to have her baby, a daughter she names Clementina (or "Tina").
More details
| author | Casey Robinson |
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| contentLocation | Pennsylvania |
| director | Edmund Goulding |
| editor | George Amy |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | american civil war civil war end engage estrange foundling horse riding accident illegitimate child kill orphanage philadelphia riding accident spoil than the union army wedding day |
| musicBy | Max Steiner |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |