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autumncottageattic · 4 months

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Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film, 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. It also makes a point about Skeffington's status as a Jew in 1914 high society and later in relation to Nazi Germany.

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spellfuls · 4 months

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Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

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inthedarktrees · 4 months

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Karen Black in The Day of the Locust, 1975

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bwallure · 7 months

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REBECCA (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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thebarroomortheboy · 2 months

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John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford

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thevelvetgoldmine · 1 year

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IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) dir. Nicholas Ray

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peggy-elise · 23 days

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Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath 1940 🧶

#old hollywood #beauty #romantic drama #historical drama #1940s cinema #henry fonda #jane darwell #john carradine #dorris bowden #the grapes of wrath #the dust bowl #the great depression #john steinbeck

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 2 months

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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in Fire Over England (1937). It is the first film where Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier appear together, and Leigh's performance convinced David Selznick to cast her as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939).

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