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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.
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
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.
[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 ...
Job Skeffington in Mr. Skeffington; Dr. Paul Carruthers in The Devil Bat; Carl in Casablanca; Sir Guy Charteris in The Shanghai Gesture; Charlie Chan in Charlie Chan at the Olympics; Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Pardon Board Chairman in Call Northside 777; Sam Pierce in Duel in the Sun; Dan Gallagher in The Informer; Art Dealer ...
Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 – 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband Francis Sheehy-Skeffington , Margaret Cousins and James Cousins , she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights. [ 1 ]
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]