Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Edmund Goulding‘s THE OLD MAID (1939) #DailyBette
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And then, the babies, the babies who were supposed to 'make up for everything' and didn't - though they were such darlings, and one had no definite notions as to what it was that one had missed, and that they were to make up for.
Edith Wharton, The Old Maid (Old New York: The Fifties)
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Bette Davis in The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding, 1939)
Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, Louise Fazenda, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Lundigan. Screenplay: Casey Robinson, based on a play by Zoe Akins and a novel by Edith Wharton. Cinematography: Tony Gaudio. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: George Amy. Music: Max Steiner.
The Old Maid is the kind of melodrama that never really made much sense, except in the original version, the novel by Edith Wharton, where the social taboos and psychological hangups could be dealt with more convincingly. And given that filmmakers under the Production Code had to tiptoe around topics like having a child without being married, the evasions of such key issues became even more ludicrous and artificial. Still, though the movie is fun to watch today because the evasions are so glaring, and because troupers like Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins knew how to make them entertaining. The making of the film is notorious because Davis and Hopkins were constantly feuding over an old wrong: The one losing a coveted role to the other who was also suspected of sleeping with her husband, and so on. Davis is more fun when she's scheming and trying to get even in her movies than when she's suffering and self-sacrificing, so The Old Maid is not one of her juicier films.
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if i may say it. 1 your discord design is hot 2 i know its kind of asynchronous w the story but possible insp for him could be screamin jay hawkins
Felt generous.
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living in hinamizawa must be so fucking funny. its june 1983, youre hanging out with your friends in some fuckass village with zero (0) formal education institutions and being like yeah man im so hyped to go to the watanagashi festival and play the ring toss. hopefully nobody dies from the blood curse for the fifth consecutive year :/ anyways do these cicadas ever shut the fuck up or
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Art request: Old man Creek. Tweek nuzzling into Craig's neck. Here's a couple of reference photos. Hope this helps ❤
Yayy my first old man Creek req---
I hope this works--- tried my best on the pose_(:зゝ∠)_ they're quite sweet together!
and as always thanks for the req!
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The Little Mermaid!
It's so interesting to take a month or two break between these golden-age inspired fairytale illustrations, the small changes in style, even if only i can see them are fascinating.
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BETTE DAVIS, The Old Maid (1939)
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The change had come on the day when Charlotte Lovell, cowering on that very lounge, had made her terrible avowal. Then for the first time Delia, with a kind of fearful exaltation, had heard the blind forces of life groping and crying underfoot. But on that day also she had known herself excluded from them, doomed to dwell among shadows. Life had passed her by, and left her with the Ralstons.
Edith Wharton, The Old Maid (Old New York: The Fifties)
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