Word: spinsterism
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...take up residence while working on a movie intended as the star's comeback after a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role, Margaret Rutherford-solves the case, almost by remote control...
...house on the right is occupied by Cora Swanson (Teresa Wright), her husband Theodore, known as Thor (Maurice Copeland), and the spinster sister, Aaronetta (Elizabeth Wilson), who has lived with them for 40 years. Cora feels she can no longer bear this cross. When it develops that Aaronetta was not an inviolate spinster, at least vis-a-vis Thor, summer lightning flashes through the houses...
...father's unmarried sister adores the mother's unmarried brother. That subplot should underline the tightness of this family circle, but in this production, it comes across as merely silly. Sarah Sewall, as the spinster aunt, falls into the obvious danger of mawkishness. She lavishes devotion on her brother's children and her sister-in-law's brother too ostentatiously. And, like Evans, Sewall does not move like a middle-aged woman. Her counterpart is much better. Genuinely funny as the incorrigible uncle, the drunken wastrel, one wishes Jonathan David Lemkin appeared more often...
Epstein portrays the maternal spinster sister Olga with convincing intensity, though she occasionally relies too much on grimaces to convey Olga's pain...
...were not for a tightfisted great-aunt, Henry Bloch is convinced he would be just another Kansas City stockbroker today. The rich spinster rebuffed the ex-serviceman's plea in 1946 for a $50,000 loan to launch a large company that would sell office services to small businesses; she only lent him $5,000, Had she been more openhearted, Henry Bloch believes, he and his brother Richard would have started too grandly and quickly gone broke...