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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.
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington 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.
Frank Skeffington, protagonist of the 1956 novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor Job Skeffington, title character of Mr. Skeffington , a 1944 film based on the 1940 novel of the same name, played by Claude Rains
[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 ...
Frank Skeffington is the mayor of an unnamed city as well as that state's former governor. It is commonly accepted that the character of Skeffington is based on James Michael Curley , Mayor of Boston 1914-1918, 1922–1926, 1930–1934 and 1946–1950, and Governor of Massachusetts 1935-1937.
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington lost her teaching job in 1913 when she was arrested and put in prison for three months after throwing stones at Dublin Castle. Whilst in jail she started a hunger strike but was released under the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge of Ill Health Act and was soon rearrested. [7]
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 ...