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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.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Vincent Sherman
Producer:

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
Writer:

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
Release Date (Theaters):

May 25, 1944 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 19, 2016
Runtime:

2h 25m
Production Co:

First National Pictures, Warner Bros.
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

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Critic Reviews for Mr. Skeffington

All Critics (7) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (3)

This is a star vehicle in extremis.

June 7, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Dan Callahan
Slant Magazine
Bette Davis does an admirable job, as does Claude Rains. [Full review in Spanish]

September 18, 2019 | Full Review…

Elena de la Torre
Cine-Mundial
A squishy tearjerker melodrama that questions how to handle life when beauty fades, for someone who vainly lived for her beauty.

October 15, 2010 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
On target Warner super soaper features standouts Bette Davis and Claude Rains.

March 16, 2009 | Rating: 5/5

Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Largely forgotten and for good reason, interesting now as a mile-marker on Davis' lonesome road to irrelevance.

July 25, 2007 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…

Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
Sherman conduz bem a narrativa, que abrange trs dcadas das vidas de seus personagens, e auxiliado na tarefa por excelentes atuaes de Davis, Abel e Rains.

April 24, 2006 | Rating: 4/5

Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
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November 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/5

Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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Audience Reviews for Mr. Skeffington

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.

John B Super Reviewer
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!

Laura C Super Reviewer
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.

Carlos M Super Reviewer
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.

nefnie l Super Reviewer