Directed by:
Mark SandrichCinematography:
Charles LangComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel, Grant Mitchell, Mona Barrie, Ernest Cossart, James Rennie, Warren Hymer (more)Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Claudette Colbert
France
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Midnight (1939)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Ray Milland
UK
Best movies:
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Story (1970)
Brian Aherne
UK
Best movies:
Juarez (1939)
Underground (1928)
I Confess (1953)
Binnie Barnes
UK
Best movies:
Holiday (1938)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Walter Abel
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Grant Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Mona Barrie
UK
Best movies:
Syncopation (1942)
Strange Fascination (1952)
Ernest Cossart
UK
Best movies:
Desire (1936)
Kings Row (1942)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
James Rennie
Canada
Best movies:
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
A Bell for Adano (1945)
Warren Hymer
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Hobart Cavanaugh
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The House of Fear (1945)
Edward Fielding
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Rebecca (1940)
Madame Curie (1943)
Leon Belasco
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Irving Bacon
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Margaret Hayes
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Saboteur (1942)
Henry Roquemore
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Minerva Urecal
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
James Flavin
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Fritz Feld
German Empire
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)