Mr. Skeffington

The titled beauty Frances Fanny is forced to marry the wealthy businessman Job Skeffington. This mesalliance causes universal outrage in high society. A long line of gentlemen stands before the “unfortunate” one, trying to “save her from the rude tradesman” and literally instilling in Fanny how unworthy her husband is. And no one — not even Mrs. Skeffington herself — suspects that the kind, gentle, patient husband is capable of giving her that implicit, understated happiness, which, indeed, is not worth rejecting for the sake of empty snobbery...