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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
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25 May 1944 (USA)
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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 and predictable complications result. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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Brilliantly executed tale with remarkable political insight
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bette Davis | ... | Fanny Trellis |
 | Claude Rains | ... | Job Skeffington |
 | Walter Abel | ... | George Trellis |
| George Coulouris | ... | Doctor Byles |
| Richard Waring | ... | Trippy Trellis |
| Marjorie Riordan | ... | Frances Rachel Trellis aka Young Fanny |
| Robert Shayne | ... | MacMahon |
| John Alexander | ... | Jim Conderley |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Edward Morrison |
| Johnny Mitchell | ... | Johnny Mitchell |
| Dorothy Peterson | ... | Manby |
| Peter Whitney | ... | Chester Forbish |
| Bill Kennedy | ... | Bill Thatcher |
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145 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Spain:7 |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:Approved (certificate #9762) |
UK:U (re-rating) (2005) |
UK:A (original rating)
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Bette Davis was not the first choice for the role of Fanny. The part was first offered first to Merle Oberon and then to Hedy Lamarr who both turned it down.
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Anachronisms: As a measure of the progression of time, a newspaper headline flashes President Harding's Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921-22, and stock footage shows the U.S. Capitol Dome with 1940s-era taxicabs pouring up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Jim Conderley: Good evening, Soames!
Soames: Good evening, Mr. Conderley.
Jim Conderley: Afraid I'm a little early, aren't I?
Soames: Miss Trellis wasn't expecting anyone till 8 o'clock.
Jim Conderley: Well, I thought I'd come a little ahead of time; have a little chat with Miss Fanny.
Soames: Sorry, sir; she's still dressing.
Jim Conderley: All right, I'll wait.
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Jim Conderley: Good evening, Soames!
Soames: Good evening, Mr. Conderley.
Jim Conderley: Afraid I'm a little early, aren't I?
Soames: Miss Trellis wasn't expecting anyone till 8 o'clock.
Jim Conderley: Well, I thought I'd come a little ahead of time; have a little chat with Miss Fanny.
Soames: Sorry, sir; she's still dressing.
Jim Conderley: All right, I'll wait.
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Featured in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV)
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Oh! You Beautiful Doll
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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. Their marriage of convenience outrages Fanny's blueblooded family and relatives. The film contains a candid treatment of marital disintegration and mutual infidelity followed by a typical N.Y. fault-based divorce (in which both parties are at fault but the husband allows a default divorce to proceed). Fanny gladly gives up custody of her daughter so that she can maintain her liberated lifestyle; little Fanny is responsibly raised by her father (who schleps her off to Germany). There is also a painful scene in which father and daughter agree to stay together in which the father warns her that by staying with him she will be treated as Jewish and will confront discrimination, especially in Germany. All of this was quite unusual for films of the time. Of course, the film was made in 1944 when anti-Nazi themes were permissible, but even then it was rare to see even reasonably candid treatment of divorce and child custody issues and rarer yet to see anti-semitism.