A wonderful showcase for the talents of Bette Davis and yet another opportunity for her to play a most distasteful character.
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
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May 9, 2009
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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
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
