The Old Maid Trivia To get the effects of aging, Bette Davis didnt wear any eye makeup or lipstick, and makeup artist Perc Westmore used a pale, ashen base on her face. Humphrey Bogart was originally cast as the male lead, but dismissed after four days filming. The 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened at the Empire Theatre in New York on Jan. 7, 1935 and ran for 305 performances. The leads were played by Judith Anderson andHelen Menken. Marjorie Lord, who later gained fame as the wife of Danny Thomas on TVs Make Room for Daddy (1953), was a replacement cast member in a supporting role. Producer-Director Ernst Lubitsch bought the rights to the play, intending to star bothJudith Anderson and Helen Menken in a Paramount production, but he sold the rights to Warner Bros. in Jan. 1939. Lux Radio Theater broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 30, 1939 with Miriam Hopkins reprising her film role.
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