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Name: Dark Victory
Released: 1939-4-22
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan

Dark Victory

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1h 46m
1939

85%

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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 Warner finally did so...skeptically. "Who wants to see a dame go blind?" he asked. Almost everyone: Dark Victory was Davis's 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.

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Producer:

David Lewis

Writer:

Casey Robinson

Cast:

Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon, Virginia Brissac

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: Bette Davis does it her way with a tour de force performance in Dark Victory, a moving melodrama that snatches triumph from the jaws of mortality.

Reviews

InSession Film

Zita Short

At the end of the day, it is rather difficult to make a defense for the film itself. It’s a poor rip-off of a Garbo vehicle and Garbo’s films were nothing to write home about in the first place.

The themes tend to be more powerful than the individual events, as tinier episodes populate a tale in need of more significant happenings.

December 7, 2020

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The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)

James T. Hamada

[A] dramatic triumph.

Judith frequently grasps onto objects, her clothes or a chair... Davis has so much energy and life force flowing through her that she has to direct it somewhere.

It's hard to watch Bette Davis admit defeat.

April 11, 2020

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