Rating: - DVD please!
I really love this movie and really don't understand why this has not been released on DVD. Let's get it out there people!
Rating: - The Old Maid
A beautiful and touching story with Bette Davis, as a young lady who sees her cousin Delia get all the luck, when Margaret starts a home for abandoned children and also her illigimate daughter. But after her foundation is closed she moves in with her Cousin who infatuates the child.
The 31 year old Bette Davis ages thirty years in the part of Charlotte Lowell, an unwed mother who bears a daughter soon after the father is killed in the Civl War. Taken away by Charlotte's treacherous cousin Delia, the child's misguided devotion is won by Delia, while the once lovely Charlotte deteriorates ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty Racy Stuff!
Considering our perception of those prudish days gone by, this one has a pretty racy storyline rife with infidelity, adultery and illegitimacy. Bette Davis is great in the first half, even while Miriam Hopkins emotes wildly like a silent movie actress. Unfortunately, the movie falls apart in the second half and Davis plays everything on one note, with an absurd makeup job that screams out community theatre. We come to expect a gigantic payoff that is never delivered. A disappointment, but not bad rainy afternoon matinee fare.
Rating: - "Aunt" Charlotte
Bette Davis stars as an unmarried mother in 1870's America who allows her wealthier, widowed cousin Miriam Hopkins to raise her daughter, thus saving the child and herself from any scandal. The child's father, George Brent, was Hopkins' former fiance, and was killed in the Civil War. Needless to say, it's a painful thing to watch her daughter calling another woman Mother. Davis gives a sympathetic, tightly controlled performance that anchors the film. Hopkins' character isn't well defined, although she manages to give the character some dimension. Brent, in the presence of these two actresses staking ... Read More
Rating: - Davis triumphs in classic tearjerker
This melodrama / tearjerker is fairly typical of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s - a basically decent woman breaks the moral code of her day and pays dearly for it. The story is interesting, but its biggest asset is Bette Davis' rather subdued performance as Charlotte Lovell, the woman who pays the price. Made in 1939, the film is from Davis' golden period. She was nominated for an Academy Award every year from 1939 to 1943. While her work here is strong, she received no special acclaim for it, possibly because the role is so similar to the one she played in the superior "Jezebel", for which she won ... Read More
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