| Dark Victory | |||||
| Warner Bros. (1939) | |||||
| Drama, Romance | |||||
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| Bette Davis | Judith Traherne | |
| Humphrey Bogart | Michael O'Leary | |
| George Brent | Dr. Frederick Steele | |
| Geraldine Fitzgerald | Ann King | |
| Ronald Reagan | Alec | |
| Henry Travers | Dr. Parsons | |
| Cora Witherspoon | Carrie | |
| Dorothy Peterson | Miss Wainwright | |
| Virginia Brissac | Martha | |
| Charles Richman | Colonel Mantle | |
| Herbert Rawlinson | Dr. Carter | |
| Leonard Mudie | Dr. Driscoll | |
| Fay Helm | Miss Dodd | |
| Lottie Williams | Lucy |
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| Producer | Hal B. Wallis
David Lewis |
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| Writer | Casey Robinson
George Emerson Brewer Jr. |
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| Cinematography | Ernest Haller
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| Musician | Max Steiner
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Bette Davis' bravura, moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, remains a three-hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn't pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory's story rights. Jack Werner finally did so…skeptically. "Who wants to see a dame go blind?" he asked. Almost everyone: Dark Victory was Davis' biggest box-office hit yet and garnered Academy Award nominations for 1939's Best Picture, Actress and Original Score (Max Steiner). "If it were an automobile," Newsweek wrote, Dark Victory "would be a Rolls-Royce." It's the perfect match of star and vehicle. |
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