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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 titles roll as an election campaign for a Frank Skeffington unfolds. In "a New England city", Skeffington, a former governor, is running for a fifth term as mayor. He rose from poverty in an Irish ghetto and is skilled at using the power of his office and an enormous political machine of ward heelers to receive support from his Irish Catholic base and other demographics.
Thomas Skevington or Skeffington (died 1533), English Bishop of Bangor; Thomas Skeffington (MP) (1550–1600), English Member of Parliament for Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency) Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard (1772–1843), Irish politician; William Skeffington (c. 1465–1535), English knight and Lord Deputy of Ireland
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.
Vincent Sherman (born Abraham Orovitz, July 16, 1906 – June 18, 2006) was an American director and actor who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959).
The Farrell-Skeffington, later Skeffington Baronetcy, of Skeffington in the County of Leicester, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 June 1786 for William Farrell-Skeffington. The second baronet used the surname Skeffington only. The title became extinct on his death in 1850.
Skeffington is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It lies 11 miles/18 km east of Leicester on the A47 Uppingham road, between Billesdon and Tugby and Keythorpe .
Skeffington was the eldest son of Sir William Skeffington, 1st Baronet of Fisherwicke, Staffordshire, and his wife, Margaret Dering of Surrenden, near Lenham, Kent. [1] He matriculated from Jesus College, Cambridge, in the spring of 1603 and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 30 October 1604. He was knighted in August 1624. [2]