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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
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25 May 1944 (USA) morePlot:
Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge and predictable complications result. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for 2 Oscars. moreUser Comments:
Elizabeth's novel comes to the screen more (68 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Bette Davis | ... | Fanny Trellis | |
| Claude Rains | ... | Job Skeffington | |
| Walter Abel | ... | George Trellis | |
| George Coulouris | ... | Doctor Byles | |
| Richard Waring | ... | Trippy Trellis | |
| Marjorie Riordan | ... | Frances Rachel Trellis aka Young Fanny | |
| Robert Shayne | ... | MacMahon | |
| John Alexander | ... | Jim Conderley | |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Edward Morrison | |
| Johnny Mitchell | ... | Johnny Mitchell | |
| Dorothy Peterson | ... | Manby | |
| Peter Whitney | ... | Chester Forbish | |
| Bill Kennedy | ... | Bill Thatcher |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Certification:
Spain:7 | Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #9762) | UK:U (re-rating) (2005) | UK:A (original rating)Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAFun Stuff
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Bette Davis's final Oscar-nominated performance while under contract with Warner Bros. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: As a measure of the progression of time, a newspaper headline flashes President Harding's Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921-22, and stock footage shows the U.S. Capitol Dome with 1940s-era taxicabs pouring up Pennsylvania Avenue. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Jim Conderley: Good evening, Soames!
Soames: Good evening, Mr. Conderley.
Jim Conderley: Afraid I'm a little early, aren't I?
Soames: Miss Trellis wasn't expecting anyone till 8 o'clock.
Jim Conderley: Well, I thought I'd come a little ahead of time; have a little chat with Miss Fanny.
Soames: Sorry, sir; she's still dressing.
Jim Conderley: All right, I'll wait.
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'Mr Skeffington', by Elizabeth, came to the screen in 1944 with Claude Rains in the title role, Bette Davis as Fanny, Richard Waring as Trippy, Jerome Cowan as Edward, and others.
An absorbing and entertaining novel could only be buoyed up by the playing of Bette Davis as the self-absorbed Miss Trellis, who has no knowledge of the real world as it affects her friends and her family. Trippy's money problems mean as little to her as the attentions of her tribe of young men. Fanny losing her beauty would be her greatest calamity ...
As Job Skeffington, Trippy's understanding boss, Claude Rains adds a touch of dryness and dignity to the role. The teaming between Rains and Davis gives plenty of zip to the film and makes the whole thing hugely enjoyable - there is a tragic undercurrent to this story that both actors could carry off completely.
'Mr Skeffington' is excellent and one of those great 1940s wallows they just don't make anymore [sigh].