Carole Lombard in ‘Twentieth Century’.
Director: Howard Hawks, 1934.
Mr. Skeffington (1944) was one of the earliest Hollywood pictures to openly tackle the issue of anti-Semitism. In the scene above, the title character (played by Claude Rains) is sensitively explaining to his half-Jewish daughter the reasons he does not wish to take her along to war-torn Europe, where he has been deployed to fight in WWII. This hit particularly close to home during filming for Rains, whose own daughter was half-Jewish by way of her mother, and co-star Bette Davis later recalled, “He forgot his character.”
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