Mr. Skeffington
She was lucky that Mr. Skeffington was such a gentleman!
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A classical melodrama about vanity and redemption, where a woman's rejection of her devoted husband's love leads to her reckoning with aging and loss, ultimately toward reconciliation.
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Essence
Ensemble
Bette Davis
Fanny Trellis
Claude Rains
Job Skeffington
Walter Abel
George Trellis
George Coulouris
Dr. Byles
Richard Waring
Trippy Trellis
Marjorie Riordan
Young Fanny
Robert Shayne
MacMahon
John Alexander
Jim Conderley
Jerome Cowan
Edward Morrison
Johnny Mitchell
Johnny Mitchell
Dorothy Peterson
Manby
Peter Whitney
Chester Forbish
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