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Mr. Skeffington [videorecording (DVD)].

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Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005.

Antisemitism -- Drama.

Marriage -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Mister Skeffington [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (146 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

From a story by "Elizabeth" [i.e. Elizabeth von Arnim].

Videodisc release of the 1944 motion picture.

Special features: Commentary by director Vincent Sherman ; Mr. Skeffington: a picture of strength featurette ; theatrical trailer.

Standard version. Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

"She was very lucky that Mr. Skeffington was such a gentleman!"--Container.

Includes English & French language tracks with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Directed by Vincent Sherman ; screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein ; from a story by "Elizabeth" ; music by Franz Waxman.

Bette Davis with Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring, George Coulouris and Marjorie Riordan.

"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 find hope in the words: 'A woman is beautiful when she's loved. And only then.' Magic."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Von Arnim, Elizabeth, 1866-1941. Mr. Skeffington.

Sherman, Vincent.

Davis, Bette, 1908-1989.

Rains, Claude, 1889-1967.

Abel, Walter, 1898-1987.

Waring, Richard, 1914-1994.

Coulouris, George, 1903-1989.

Riordan, Marjorie.

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