Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington

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Mr. Skeffington

Bette Davis, Claude Rains, George Coulouris, Jerome Cowan, John Alexander, Johnny Mitchell, Marjorie Riordan, Richard Waring, Robert Shayne, Walter Abel

Vain society woman Fanny Trellis is informed by Jewish-American financier Job Skeffington that her brother Trippy has stolen money to pay his gambling debts, Fanny marries Job, securing his promise th...( read more  read more... )at he won't prosecute her thieving sibling. Angered by Fanny's agreeing to this loveless union, Trippy runs off to join the army, and is killed during World War I. Fanny holds Skeffington responsible for her brother's death, and demands a divorce with a generous cash settlement.

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  • May 9, 2009
    A wonderful showcase for the talents of Bette Davis and yet another opportunity for her to play a most distasteful character.
  • August 5, 2008
    bette davis is a wide eyed, breathy caricature of herself but claude rains is outstanding as the husband she doesn't love
  • April 23, 2008
    i didn't even know this one was out there, but absolutely loved it when i first saw it. one of the great "undiscovered" films with one of the most underappreciated actors in film history, senor mister rains.
  • December 2, 2008
    Great film about a beautiful women who marries for security and 25 years later when her looks fade she begins to see what a vain shallow person she really is. Bette Davis and Claude Rains are fantastic in this and the supporting cast is at times dramatic and funny.Great direction...( read more) and the script is very realistic. A nice film, worth a watch.
  • August 5, 2008
    Wow!!!
  • November 23, 2009
    Bette Davis da una buena interpretacion, como siempre es carismatica y realmente puede entregar un dialogo, este es otro clasico ejemplo de los personajes que ella elegia que nadie se animaba a hacer, ya que no es la buena en realidad, y no tiene problema con mostrarse natural o ...( read more)fea, lo interesante es que ella logra ser el personaje en todas sus etapas, donde fluye de una manera muy natural, con completa confianza del papel, aun cuando no es la mas bella de joven, ni la mas fea de vieja, como se dice en la pelicula... 7.5/10.-
  • November 3, 2009
    Davis is totally outstanding in her performance, as well as Rains, and Sherman does a perfect job as he fluidly conducts us through more than twenty years of their characters' lives.
  • September 3, 2009
    Claude Rains can definitely hold his own with Bette Davis. Davis' performance seems to forshadow her excellent work in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
  • August 24, 2009
    Bette is wonderful, as usual, in this great drama!
  • August 6, 2008
    Lovely old classic with Bette Davis playing a vain socialite who married for security and can display nothing but indifference toward her husband (memorably played by Claude Rains) and their daughter but continues to keep men around her simply for the attention. There are enough...( read more) light-hearted moments in this to take the edge off this very heavy film that sometimes is so emotionally excruiating in the way she treats her husband and daughter it's hard to watch; but there is no doubt this is a classic that earned it's reputation by the grand performances of both Bette Davis and Claude Rains and nice supporting role by Walter Able.

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