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Good acting can hide many things in a movie, in "Mr. Skeffington," it conceals a slow script and inept directing to produce an exceptionally moving drama with great emotional impact and effective probing of human nature...
...screen absence of several months to deliver a remarkable performance as Fanny Trellis, the toast of New York. Fanny has the gay blades of the city at her foot, but her erratic brother, Trimpey, becomes involved in a $25,000 swindle and Fanny has to marry the swindled, Joseph Skeffington, bachelor president of the New York Stock Exchange, to save face for the family...
...Skeffington" could well be titled "Mrs. Skeffington." The powerful theme that overshadows occasionally dull moments and makes the movie outstanding revolves around Fanny her intense pro-occupation with personal beauty, blotting out her true nature even to herself. The desperate struggle to carry beauty into old age is touching cinema, get in an early twentieth-century atmosphere with a compelling, heavy, suspenseful tone. The mood is tense, the effect like a fizzling fuse of dynamite...
Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston...
...SKEFFINGTON - Elizabeth - Doubleday, Doran...