Skylark (1941 film)

For other uses, see Skylark (disambiguation).

Skylark
Directed by	Mark Sandrich
Written by	Zion Myers Samson Raphaelson (play and novel) Allan Scott
Produced by	Mark Sandrich
Starring	Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	LeRoy Stone
Music by	Victor Young Leo Shuken(uncredited)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	21 November 1941
Running time	92 min
Country	USA
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).

Plot

A wife feels she is neglected and treated insensitively by her husband on their 5th wedding anniversary. She meets a lawyer, 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 Gore
• 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

See also

• 1941 in film

External links

• Skylark at IMDb
• Skylark at the TCM Movie Database