Mr. Skeffington 1944 123movies

Watch: Mr. Skeffington 1944 123movies, Full Movie Online – It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy, but Trippy squandered away the family fortune, about which no one knows except their cousin George Trellis and their many creditors. Fanny and Trippy still put on the façade to the outside world that they have money. The beautiful Fanny can have any man that she wants to marry, but she sets her sights on Job Skeffington, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Job’s wealth was self-made in finance. They met as Trippy was once employed by Job in his brokerage house. Fanny and Job, who is now aware of the Trellis’ financial straits, ultimately do get married, much to the consternation of Fanny’s many suitors, but most specifically to Trippy, who knows the reason why Fanny married him. Job also realizes that Fanny does not love him, but is unaware of the real reason she agreed to marry him. After their marriage, Fanny’s suitors are still around with more joining the ranks, which Job does not mind as he is aware that Fanny is not leading them on. But when the reason for Fanny marrying Job no longer exists, their relationship changes. They have to figure out what to do, which now takes into consideration their daughter, also named Fanny. As time goes on, they grow into middle age and Fanny’s physical beauty deteriorates, Fanny comes to the realization of what is really important in life..
Plot: A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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	7.6/10 Votes: 6,133
	57% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 47 Popularity: 3.949 | TMDB

Reviews:

Very, very worthwhile
This truly lavish melodrama really knocked me out. I simply did not find any significant weaknesses to this film, at least none of which others have alluded. Films of this type can easily become maudlin, insignificant, and flat. However, “Mr. Skeffington” is the result of a set of elements that are incorporated vibrantly. The film simply has a grand sweep to it, lifting it high above many others of this genre.

The staging and sets (in conjunction with Ory-Kelly’s costumes) are as good as any movie that I’ve seen, along the lines of “Gone With the Wind”, “Citizen Kane”, “Gigi”, or “Long Day’s Journey into Night”. The use of silence and spaciousness, along with noise and density, is brilliantly carried out and is extremely well-balanced by the characters’ non-verbal responses to each other. It’s hard to describe without providing details of given scenes – I would suggest that you watch it with this perspective and see what you think.

Speaking of scenes, length is the common enemy of films of this type, but not here – each scene plays out like a shining entity that still provides momentum and underpinning for the entire story. I counted at least 12 very memorable scenes. Humor is added strategically to most scenes to balance the starkness of the story and is nicely understated to avoid a sense of camp. Director Vincent Sherman has polished each scene like a diamond, and the effect is very powerful. The scenes really do stand on their own almost like a set of montages.

Bette Davis’ performance is decidedly affected as she plays Fanny as a young girl, but the pure talent and visual power of this actress makes one believe that she is truly the beauty that she is supposed to be. Notice how her movements and responsiveness reinforce the sense of someone almost 15 years younger than herself. While others have complained about the makeup of the older Fanny in portraying her change in age, I found that the makeup perfectly embodied the older Fanny because Davis plays the character so consistently to her advanced age. I would place this performance in Bette Davis’ top tier, along with “Now, Voyager”, “The Little Foxes”, and “All About Eve”.

Claude Rains plays the title character with restraint, integrity, and great love for Fanny, but the sense of pathos that he communicates really helps to give the movie a lot of power. The other acting performances are uniformly excellent, particularly Walter Abel as Cousin George. Without the strength of Abel’s characterization, this would have been a far weaker movie.

Franz Waxman’s score has been criticized by some as being extravagant and overly dramatic to the point of being startling. I really enjoyed it – Waxman incorporates a lush late romantic style that has a stronger “classical-music” feel than other scores for movies of this type, which tend to emphasize strings as accompaniment. The result is a feeling of complexity which shades the story along with the other elements.

This is easily Vincent Sherman’s best work, one of Ernest Haller’s best, and one of the best melodramas that I have seen. 10 out of 10.

The Patience of Job
“Mr. Skeffington” is one of Bette Davis’ best performances, and the best of the four teaming with Claude Rains (“Now Voyager” does not have as many sequences with both of them sharing scenes as “Skeffington”). It is the story of a silly, vain woman who marries a man for his money, and to protect her brother. She fails to protect her brother, but she does find that the man she married is a better man than she deserves.

It is also an over-the-years tale, beginning about 1914, and involving World War I, prohibition, the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism, and ending in World War II. Job Skeffington is a successful stock dealer and banker on Wall Street, and he is a rarity: he’s Jewish. Somehow he hires Fanny Trellis’s brother Trippy, who returns the favor by embezzling some funds. As Fanny and Trippy are socialites they are used to their friends covering up for their errors. But Job can’t simply allow this, because the money doesn’t belong to him but to his customers. When he approaches Fanny (gently – he just wants Trippy to return the money) Fanny pulls out her stops to entice him. It works and they marry. Job puts the money back himself. But Trippy is an anti-Semite, and is furious that Fanny sold herself to that Jew. He leaves in high anger. Later Fanny hopes that he will return after he gets it out of his system, but Trippy is killed in the war. Although it is not Job’s fault, Fanny does not quite forgive him for that.

She becomes more and more outspokenly unfaithful, much to Job’s chagrin and pain. Eventually it leads to a divorce. They have a young daughter who lives mostly with Job, and only joins Fanny later. But that is after a shock hits Fanny’s self-image…and sets the stage for a final reconciliation with Job.

All the performances in the film, Davis, Rains, Richard Waring, Walter Abel, Jerome Cowan, are excellent. But one of my favorites is the unexpected comic turn of George Coulouris as the popular psychologist, Dr. Byles. Coulouris usually was a humorless schemer in movies and television, but could rise to the occasion in comedy (witness his progressively increasing irritation as Walter Parkes Thatcher in “Citizen Kane”). Here he is ready to leave on a long planned, much needed vacation, when Fanny barges in to unload her misery and woe without so much as a scheduled appointment. By only showing the clock in the background to show the length she takes away from the boiling Dr. Byles, one is ready for the inevitable conclusion – when the good Doctor tells her off. And he is the first person to do so in the movie.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 26 min (146 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Vincent Sherman
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Elizabeth von Arnim
Actors Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,492 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm