Skylark (1941)
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Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, stars of the 1940 hit Arise, My Love, were immediately reteamed for Skylark. Adapted from the play by Samson Rafaelson, the film stars Colbert as the wife of a neglectful businessman Milland (her role had been played on Broadway by Gertrude Lawrence). Brian Aherne is a handsome bachelor who hopes to win Colbert away from her husband. At first enjoying her vacation from marriage, Colbert finds she can't keep up with Aherne's peripatetic lifestyle, and returns to Milland. Skylark's comic highlight is a slapstick sequence in which Colbert tries to prepare lunch in a yacht during a storm. The scene was shot in a single take, an accomplishment in which the actress took justifiable pride. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mark Sandrich
Synopsis of Skylark
Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, stars of the 1940 hit Arise, My Love, were immediately reteamed for Skylark. Adapted from the play by Samson Rafaelson, the film stars Colbert as the wife of a neglectful businessman Milland (her role had been played on Broadway by Gertrude Lawrence). Brian Aherne is a handsome bachelor who hopes to win Colbert away from her husband. At first enjoying her vacation from marriage, Colbert finds she can't keep up with Aherne's peripatetic lifestyle, and returns to Milland. Skylark's comic highlight is a slapstick sequence in which Colbert tries to prepare lunch in a yacht during a storm. The scene was shot in a single take, an accomplishment in which the actress took justifiable pride. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Skylark
- Claudette Colbert - Lydia Kenyon
- Brian Aherne - Jim Blake
- Walter Abel - George Gore
- Mona Barrie - Charlotte Gorell
- James Rennie - Ned Franklin
- Warren Hymer - Big man in subway car
- Edward Fielding - Scholarly man in subway car
- Irving Bacon - Ferryman
- Frank Orth - Subway cashier
- Armand Kaliz - Jeweler
- William Newell - Counterman
- Francisco Maran - Mr. Harrison
- Keith Richards - Counterman, 2nd hamburger stand
- James Flavin - Subway guard
- Ella Neal - Usherette
- Minerva Urecal - Woman in subway car
- Ray Milland - Tony Kenyon
- Binnie Barnes - Myrtle Vantine
- Grant Mitchell - Frederick Vantine
- Ernest Cossart - Theodore
- Leonard Mudie - Jewelry clerk
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Small man in subway car
- Leon Belasco - Man with long hair
- Edward Peil Sr. - Man behind Tony
- Robert Dudley - Pedestrian
- Howard Mitchell - Man in front of Tony
- Virginia Sale - Woman in subway car
- Henry Roquemore - Bartender
- Patricia Farr - Waitress
- May Boley - Fat woman in subway car
- Maggie Hayes - Receptionist
- Fritz Feld - Maitre d'Hotel
- Director(s):
- Mark Sandrich
- Writer(s):
- Zion Myers, Allan G. Scott
- Producer(s):
- Mark Sandrich
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