Title: Not for Bette
Product review: I love Bette Davis, and have many of her films, but the absurd characters of Mr and Mrs. Skefinton is so idiotic and unsympatheic, that it doesn't fit Davis or Raines. Ms. Davis has played the spoiled rich beautiful young woman before, as in Jezebel, and done it well, but the characters around her were written well also, and the costumes worked well, not so in Mr. Skefington.The story is simply unbelievable. Mr. Skefington, Claude Rains, plays a proud man who came from a poor family, but because of his intellect and ability, became a rich, smart and shrewed business man. From that character, he is turned into a blitering idiot after he meets Bette. He allows her to turn him into a weak and naive man without any strenght of character. Also in this film, Bette's very high pitched voice, which got higher as she got older was nerve wracking. This part was not for Ms. Davis or Mr. Raines.
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