October 26 movie: The Old Maid. Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins star in a retread of several Davis movies. There's Now, Voyager with Davis as dowdy "Aunt Charlotte," raising a child that sort of is hers and sort of isn't. Then there's Old Aquaintance, with a lifelong, difficult friendship between Davis and Hopkins. At the time I remember thinking of a third Davis movie, but I can't remember it now. Oh yeah! Georg Brent dying and leaving behind a child out of wedlock brings in The Great Lie. All three of those are better movies than this, unfortunately.
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