Skylark (1941 film)

Skylark
Original poster
Directed by	Mark Sandrich
Produced by	Mark Sandrich
Written by	Zion Myers Samson Raphaelson (play and novel) Allan Scott
Starring	Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne
Music by	Victor Young Leo Shuken(uncredited)
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	LeRoy Stone
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	November 21, 1941
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Skylark is a 1941 film directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Loren L. Ryder, Paramount SSD).^[1]

Plot

Lydia Kenyon (Claudette Colbert) feels she is neglected and treated insensitively by her husband, Tony (Ray Milland), on their fifth wedding anniversary. She meets a lawyer, Jim Blake (Brian Aherne), and though she eventually divorces her husband, and nearly marries the young lawyer instead, in a moment of crisis she realises she loves her husband, and returns to him.

Cast

• Claudette Colbert as Lydia Kenyon
• Ray Milland as Tony Kenyon
• Brian Aherne as Jim Blake
• Binnie Barnes as Myrtle Vantine
• Walter Abel as George Gorell
• Grant Mitchell as Frederick Vantine
• Mona Barrie as Charlette Gorell
• Ernest Cossart as Theodore
• James Rennie as Ned Franklyn
• Leonard Mudie as Jewelry clerk
• Warren Hymer as Big man in subway car
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Small man in subway car
• Edward Fielding as Scholarly man in subway car
• Leon Belasco as Long-haired man in subway car
• Irving Bacon as Ferryman

References

1. "The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-13.

External links

• Skylark at the Internet Movie Database
• Skylark at AllMovie
• Skylark at the TCM Movie Database
• 1952 Best Plays radio adaptation of original play at Internet Archive