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  1. Mr. Skeffington Released May 25, 1944 2h 25m Drama List 57% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 80% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings A woman dreams of a picture-perfect life but finds she's close to losing...

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    • Bette Davis
    • Vincent Sherman
    • Drama
  2. Mr. Skeffington is remarkable for its time because it candidly deals with the subject of anti-semitism. Skeffington is a successful Jewish stockbroker who rose from the slums. Fanny Trellis came from aristocratic wealth but is now broke.

  3. A squishy tearjerker melodrama that questions how to handle life when beauty fades, for someone who vainly lived for her beauty. Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 15, 2010. Steve Crum...

  4. Sep 10, 2012 · Mr Skeffington 1944, directed by Vincent Sherman | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Take a large stock of hankies with you: this monumental soaper drips interminably on. It's a...

  5. With Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris. 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.

  6. Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman, based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Elizabeth von Arnim. The film stars Bette Davis as a beautiful but self-centered woman who has many suitors but marries Job Skeffington, played by Claude Rains, solely to save her brother from going to prison. It also makes a ...

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  8. Whatever Happened to Mrs. Skeffington? High melodrama built on the the fear of growing old, the ephemeral nature of human beauty, and the transformational power of love. Shades of Dorian Gray and Narcissus about a woman who’s spent her whole life looking into a mirror.

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