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Bette Davis, Claude Rains, George Coulouris, Jerome Cowan, John Alexander, Johnny Mitchell, Marjorie Riordan, Richard Waring, Robert Shayne, Walter Abel
Fanny Skeffington, an incorrigible society flirt of the WWI era, was one of the meatiest roles and most exasperating women Bette Davis ever played. Flighty Fanny loves the attention of her male suitor...( read more
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A wonderful showcase for the talents of Bette Davis and yet another opportunity for her to play a most distasteful character.
bette davis is a wide eyed, breathy caricature of herself but claude rains is outstanding as the husband she doesn't love
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.
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)
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.
Claude Rains can definitely hold his own with Bette Davis. Davis' performance seems to forshadow her excellent work in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
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)
