The Old Maid (1939)

Directed by

Edmund Goulding

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman raises her cousin's illegitimate child as her own, keeping the true parentage a secret for years. The story follows the emotional cost of that decision across their lives in old New York.

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What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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