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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.
The couple had two daughters, Skeffington (1917-2009) and the enamelist and novelist Antonia Holding Schwed (1919-2006), and traveled widely in South America and the Caribbean before living in Bermuda for a number of years, where Mr. Holding was a government official.
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
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 ).
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.
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.
[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 ...
Tess Skeffington's name is a riff on Spade's secretary Effie Perine. Jessica Marbles ( Elsa Lanchester ) parodies Christie's Miss Marple . In the film, Marbles appears as hearty, robust and tweed-clad, wheeling a frail, ancient-looking, seemingly senile companion—her ancient "nurse" Miss Withers ( Estelle Winwood ), for whom she is now caring ...