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Movie Info
A woman dreams of a picture-perfect life but finds she's close to losing everything. Gorgeous Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis) appears to have her choice of men, and wealthy Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) is her pick. Fanny's marriage plans are to preserve her family's reputation, but her machinations are rendered meaningless when her brother Trippy (Richard Waring) is killed in World War I. For Fanny and Job, the following years will be colored by loss, longing and self-discovery.
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Vincent Sherman
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Producer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
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Writer: Elizabeth von Arnim, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Warner Bros.
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Production Co: First National Pictures, Warner Bros.
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Sound Mix: Mono
Cast & Crew

Bette Davis
Fanny Trellis Skeffington

Claude Rains
Job Skeffington

Walter Abel
George Trellis

Richard Waring
Trippy Trellis

George Coulouris
Doctor Byles

Marjorie Riordan
Young Fanny

Robert Shayne
MacMahon

John Alexander
Jim Conderley

Jerome Cowan
Edward Morrison

Dorothy Peterson
Manby

Peter Whitney
Chester Forbish

Bill Kennedy
Thatcher

Tom Stevenson
Reverend Miles Hyslup

Vincent Sherman
Director

Elizabeth von Arnim
Writer

Julius J. Epstein
Writer

Philip G. Epstein
Writer

Julius J. Epstein
Producer

Philip G. Epstein
Producer

Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer

Franz Waxman
Original Music

Paul Dessau
Original Music

Ernest Haller
Cinematographer

Ralph Dawson
Film Editing
Critic Reviews for Mr. Skeffington
Audience Reviews for Mr. Skeffington
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Jan 09, 2014
Bette Davis certainly racked them up in her time and she absolutely deserved every one. It isn't the modern age when Meryl Streep deserved all of them but the Academy felt that it had to give an Oscar to someone else. This is another example of Bette at her best.
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Sep 25, 2010
Worth watching for Bette Davis and a subdued but touching performance by Claude Rains. I loved how vanity was tackled in this film, as Fanny (played by Davis) becomes increasingly desperate to cling to her youth,. It is shocking how Davis ages in this film. Thankfully the makeup department does a wonderful job- a bad job would've completely undermined the power of the film!
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Nov 01, 2009
Davis is absolutely outstanding in her Oscar-nominated performance - as well as Rains, who was also nominated -, and the most remarkable in this excellent film is Sherman's amazing direction as he fluidly conducts us through more than twenty years of his characters' lives.
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May 09, 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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