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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.
She also played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington (1944). In Shadow on the Wall (1950), she starred as the sole witness to a murder. As the "top child movie actress for 1951", the then ten-year-old was given the keys to the city of Pittsburgh by its mayor, and later Pennsylvania governor ...
Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and score a top 40 single, yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure. The lost story of female rock pioneers ...
Mr. Skeffington: Fanny Trellis Hollywood Canteen: Herself Delmer Daves: cameo role 1945 The Corn Is Green: Miss Lilly Moffat Irving Rapper: 1946 A Stolen Life: Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth Curtis Bernhardt: dual role Deception: Christine Radcliffe Irving Rapper: 1948 Winter Meeting: Susan Grieve Bretaigne Windust: June Bride: Linda Gilman ...
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 ...
The film is a profile of Fanny, an all-female rock band from the 1970s whose members included lesbian music pioneer June Millington. [2] Hart uses more than 80 photographs taken by bandmates’ friend Linda Wolf "to illustrate their unbridled woman power — a tangle of hair, bodies, and a baby — under the roof of Fanny Hill, a house in L.A. that Millington calls a sorority with amps.” [3]
Mr. Skeffington (1944) as Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited) The Suspect (1944) as Hannah Barlow (uncredited) The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, released in 1945) Hollywood and Vine (1945) as Fanny; Rhythm Round-Up (1945) as Mrs. Squimp; Cinderella Jones (1946) as Woman in Courtroom (uncredited) The Cat Creeps (1946) as Cora ...
The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of 1944.This was the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (later ABC Radio).