Mr. Skeffington Articles

Bette Davis, at 3 a.m. in Vincent Sherman's Mr. Skeffington Forget Judy Garland and Van Johnson (and Spring Byington and three-year-old Liza Minnelli) in Robert Z. Leonard's In the Good Old Summertime. Forget Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum in Don Hartman's Holiday Affair. Forget June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rossano Brazzi in Mervyn LeRoy's Little Women. It's too late to watch any of those Turner [...]

Claude Rains, one of the greatest actors of the studio era — in fact, one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century — is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of September. What would I recommend? Well, whether on TCM or on DVD or on VHS or in some hidden vault somewhere, I'd say check him out in The Invisible Man and [...]

John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat FILM I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi Crime by Night d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil Dragon Seed d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts Laura d: Otto Preminger; scr: [...]