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* HasTwoMommies: This plays out for Tina after Delia is widowed and Charlotte and Tina move in. Tina's "Aunt" Charlotte is the strict disciplinarian while Delia is the more relaxed parent.
--> '''Delia''': We can go on loving her, together.
--> '''Delia''': We can go on loving her, together.
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* InterclassRomance: Tina was a foundling, so Lanning's rich, snooty parents are against the match.
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* UptownGirl: Tina was a foundling, so Lanning's rich, snooty parents are against the match.
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Made into a 1939 film directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Creator/BetteDavis as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins as Delia.
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Made into a 1939 film directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Creator/BetteDavis as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins Creator/MiriamHopkins as Delia.
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Made into a 1939 film directed by Edmund Goulding that featured Creator/BetteDavis as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins as Delia.
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Made into a 1939 film directed by Edmund Goulding that featured Goulding, starring Creator/BetteDavis as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins as Delia.
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''The Old Maid'' is a 1935 play by Zoë Akins, based on a novel by Creator/EdithWharton.
It is set in the American south between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother-in-law Joseph--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
It is set in the American south between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother-in-law Joseph--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
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''The Old Maid'' is a 1935 play by Zoë Akins, based on a novel novella by Creator/EdithWharton.
It is set in the Americansouth South between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother-in-law Joseph--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
It is set in the American
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Tina, who thought Charlotte was her aunt and Delia was her mother, finds out at the end that it's the other way around.
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* DoorClosesEnding: Ends with Charlotte and Delia going back into the house arm-in-arm, having reconciled, and the door closing behind them.
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* InterclassRomance: Even though Tina was adopted by Delia, she's still believed to be a foundling, so Lanning's rich, snooty parents are against the match.
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--> '''Delia''': We can go on loving her, together.
* InterclassRomance:Even though Tina was adopted by Delia, she's still believed to be a foundling, so Lanning's rich, snooty parents are against the match.
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* TitleDrop: Charlotte describes herself as this. She deliberately plays this role, in fact.
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* TitleDrop: Charlotte describes herself as this. She deliberately plays this role, in fact.
fact, acting the bitter old maid to stop Tina from guessing her parentage.
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* ChickFlick: Typical of the "women's films" Bette Davis made during this era, and maybe the best example of this trope in that there is no male lead. Instead it's a film about two female cousins and their complicated relationship.
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* HasTwoMommies: This plays out for Tina after Delia is widowed and Charlotte and Tina move in. Tina's "Aunt" Charlotte is the strict disciplinarian while Delia is the more relaxed parent.
* InterclassRomance: Even though Tina was adopted by Delia, she's still believed to be a foundling, so Lanning's rich, snooty parents are against the match.
* InterclassRomance: Even though Tina was adopted by Delia, she's still believed to be a foundling, so Lanning's rich, snooty parents are against the match.
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* TitleDrop: Charlotte describes herself as this. She deliberately plays this role, in fact.
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* TimePassesMontage: A few shots of soldiers in trenches as years pass by gets the Civil War across. It includes a gravestone to let the viewers know Clem didn't survive the war.
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* TimePassesMontage: A few shots of soldiers in trenches as years pass by gets the Civil War across. It includes a gravestone to let the viewers know Clem didn't survive the war. Another has Tina walking along in progressively more "grown-up" dresses to illustrate her passage into young adulthood.
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* DoorstopBaby: Tina is passed off as this.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Although Delia rejects Clem she is jealous of Charlotte for her relationship with him. This is why she ruins Charlotte's engagement.
* OrphanageOfLove: Charlotte's orphanage, even if she does love one particular child there a tiny bit more than the rest.
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* SettingUpdate: The film is moved up to the 1860s and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. The location is moved from somewhere in the South to somewhere in the North as well.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Charlotte's baby, after Clem is killed in the war.
* TimePassesMontage: A few shots of soldiers in trenches as years pass by gets the Civil War across. It includes a gravestone to let the viewers know Clem didn't survive the war.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Charlotte's baby, after Clem is killed in the war.
* TimePassesMontage: A few shots of soldiers in trenches as years pass by gets the Civil War across. It includes a gravestone to let the viewers know Clem didn't survive the war.
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Tina, who thought Charlotte was her aunt and Delia was her mother, finds out at the end that it's the other way around.
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It is set in the American south between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother Richard--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
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It is set in the American south between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother Richard--but brother-in-law Joseph--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
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* QuittingToGetMarried: Charlotte's fiancee Joe insists she quit her job at the orphanage, which is a problem for Charlotte, as her daughter Tina is one of the orphans.
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* MaidenAunt: Everyone ''thinks'' Charlotte is this.
* OldMaid: Charlotte becomes this, living in Delia's household, Tina's parentage a closely guarded family secret.
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* OldMaid: Charlotte becomes this, living in Delia's household, Tina's parentage a closely guarded family secret.
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''The Old Maid'' is a 1935 play by Zoë Akins, based on a novel by Creator/EdithWharton.
It is set in the American south between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother Richard--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
Made into a 1939 film directed by Edmund Goulding that featured Creator/BetteDavis as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins as Delia.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the movie, Clem is killed at Vicksburg. In the play, he simply leaves town.
* SettingUpdate: The film is moved up to the 1860s and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar.
It is set in the American south between the years 1833 and 1854. Delia and Charlotte Lovell are cousins, society princesses of wealth. On the day of Delia's wedding her caddish old boyfriend Clem has the poor timing to show up in town after two years away. Delia, panicked, sends Charlotte off to intercept Clem at the train station. Naturally, the demands of {{melodrama}} result in Clem impregnating Charlotte that night. Charlotte keeps her pregnancy a secret, delivers a daughter, Tina, and houses Tina with another family. Years pass, and Charlotte becomes engaged to Delia's brother Richard--but a selfish, scheming Delia decides to obstruct the relationship.
Made into a 1939 film directed by Edmund Goulding that featured Creator/BetteDavis as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins as Delia.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the movie, Clem is killed at Vicksburg. In the play, he simply leaves town.
* SettingUpdate: The film is moved up to the 1860s and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar.
