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Leo F. Forbstein. Leonid Raab. Franz Waxman. Robert B. Lee. Julius J. Epstein. Philip G. Epstein. Elizabeth von Arnim. A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Jun 7, 2005 · In Mr. Skeffington, an insanely over-elaborate, marathon soap opera, Bette Davis gives one of her presentational, neo-Brechtian-style performances as Fanny, a famous Gramercy Park beauty who plays the field for years, pines incestuously for her weak brother Trippy (Richard Waring), loses her looks (to put it mildly) and learns a tidy lesson in love.
Mr. Skeffington. Available on iTunes. Oscar-winners Bette Davis ("The Letter") and Claude Rains ("Casablanca") star in this drama about a flighty beauty who marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives. Drama 1944 2 hr 25 min. 57%.
From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman Fanny Trellis. Informed by Jewish-American financier Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) that her brother Trippy (Richard Waring) has stolen money to pay his gambling debts, Fanny marries Job, securing his promise that he won't prosecute her thieving sibling.
Jan 12, 2006 · Mr. Skeffington was yet another starring vehicle for Bette Davis during her nearly 20 year run as the Queen of Warner Bros. Released in 1944 it gave Miss Davis her 7th Best Actress Academy Award nomination in 10 years.
Mr. Skeffington. 1944. 2 hr 7 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. A vain society woman enters into a loveless marriage with a banker in order to keep her felonious brother from going to jail. Streaming ...
Bette Davis stars as a beautiful but vain society woman who, to pay her brother's gambling debts, marries a financier she does not love--Mr.Skeffington. The marriage does not last, and the former Mrs. Skeffington flits from beau to beau casually leaving a trail of broken hearts. But when she contracts a near-fatal case of diphtheria, her beauty is destroyed by the terrible scars left by the ...
