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Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman, based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Elizabeth von Arnim.. The film stars Bette Davis as a beautiful but self-centered woman who has many suitors but marries Job Skeffington, played by Claude Rains, solely to save her brother from going to prison.
Job is a play written by Max Wolf Friedlich. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The original production started on September 6, 2023, at the Soho Playhouse in New York City . The play revolves around a young woman Jane ( Sydney Lemmon ) with her therapist Loyd ( Peter Friedman ).
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (born 1953) [1] is an Irish botanist and equity advocate. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Elected President of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland in November 2022, she was the third woman and second Irish person to hold the position since the Society's founding in 1836.
[citation needed] He then took a job as the Registrar of University College. On 26 June 1903 [20] he married Hanna Sheehy, a teacher at the Rathmines College of Commerce (a forerunner of Dublin Institute of Technology). They jointly adopted the surname "Sheehy Skeffington". Hanna's family were a prosperous farming and milling family in County ...
J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
Richard Waring and Ethel Barrymore in the Broadway production of The Corn Is Green (1940). Richard Waring was born Richard Stephens in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire in 1911, the son of Thomas E. Stephens, a painter, whose portrait of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents.
Shortly afterwards, Riordan's contract was transferred from Sol Lesser Productions to Warner Bros. [13] where she was cast as Bette Davis's daughter Fanny Jr. in Mr. Skeffington (1944). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In 1945, she went on to act alongside Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in a Universal Pictures produced film titled Pursuit to Algiers (1945) where ...
Skeffington was the eldest son of Clotworthy John Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene by Florence Whyte-Melville, only daughter of Major George Whyte-Melville.He succeeded his father as 12th Viscount Massereene and 5th Viscount Ferrard in 1905, both in the Peerage of Ireland; his inheritance included about 16,000 acres. [3]