Mr. Skeffington

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Mr. Skeffington

film by Sherman [1944]

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Vincent Sherman
Women’s pictures
Sherman reteamed with Davis on Mr. Skeffington (1944), which was another box-office hit for the duo. The soap opera featured Davis in an Academy Award-nominated performance as a narcissistic woman who enters into a loveless marriage with a financier (Claude Rains). Less popular was Pillow to Post (1945), a screwball…
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Sherman reteamed with Davis on Mr. Skeffington (1944), which was another box-office hit for the duo. The soap opera featured Davis in an Academy Award-nominated performance as a narcissistic woman who enters into a loveless marriage with a financier (Claude Rains). Less popular was Pillow to Post (1945), a screwball…
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Claude Rains
…her patient, loving husband in Mr. Skeffington (1944), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Rains was also nominated for Oscars as best supporting actor for his work in three much-loved American film classics: as the corrupt senator in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), as the…
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…her patient, loving husband in Mr. Skeffington (1944), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Rains was also nominated for Oscars as best supporting actor for his work in three much-loved American film classics: as the corrupt senator in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), as the…
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