Mr. Skeffington
She was lucky that Mr. Skeffington was such a gentleman!
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DVD Details
- Commentary by Director Vincent Sherman
- New Featurette Mr. Skeffington: A Picture of Strength
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English & French
- Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 14, 2005
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Waring, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Margorie Riordan, George Coulouris & Walter Abel | |
Performer: | Robert Shayne, John Alexander & Jerome Cowan | |
Directed by | Vincent Sherman | |
Edited by | Ralph Dawson | |
Screenwriting by | Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Produced by | Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Haller | |
Executive Production by | Jack L. Warner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 0.5/4 --
Largely forgotten and for good reason, interesting now as a mile-marker on Davis' lonesome road to irrelevance.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 4/5 --
Sherman conduz bem a narrativa, que abrange três décadas das vidas de seus personagens, e é auxiliado na tarefa por excelentes atuações de Davis, Abel e Rains.
Cinema em Cena
Rating: C+ --
A squishy tearjerker melodrama that questions how to handle life when beauty fades, for someone who vainly lived for her beauty.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
[The film] boasts a fascinating and bravely unsympathetic turn from Davis as the flirty New York belle with a heart of stone.
Sight and Sound
Bette Davis does an admirable job, as does Claude Rains. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Rating: 5/5 --
On target Warner super soaper features standouts Bette Davis and Claude Rains.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 2/4 --
This is a star vehicle in extremis.
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Slant Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Whose face - ravaged, grotesque - is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even after her marriage. But now diphtheria has robbed her of her only attribute. And without her looks, she's lost.
Bette Davis earned her eighth Best Actress Oscar nomination portraying Fanny. Backed by Claude Rains as her devoted husband, glorious costumes and a lush Franz Waxman score, Davis takes what might in lesser hands be just a woman's picture and turns it into art. Watch her ruined face glow with an inner light when she finds hope in the words: "A woman is beautiful when she's loved. And only then." Magic.
Bette Davis earned her eighth Best Actress Oscar nomination portraying Fanny. Backed by Claude Rains as her devoted husband, glorious costumes and a lush Franz Waxman score, Davis takes what might in lesser hands be just a woman's picture and turns it into art. Watch her ruined face glow with an inner light when she finds hope in the words: "A woman is beautiful when she's loved. And only then." Magic.
Product Description:
The vain and beautiful Fanny marries for money, plays around behind her husband's back and then, finally, divorces him. It isn't until near the end of her lonely life that she discovers love - real love - for the first time. Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Actress-Bette Davis, Best Supporting Actor--Claude Rains.
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