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Of Human Bondage is a 1934 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
Awards and honours. 1965: BAFTA Film Award for Best British Costume Design, Black and White (Beatrice Dawson) References
Of Human Bondage. 1934. John Cromwell. Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson ... 6.8. 1,433. Drama. Romance The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films.
The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage No. 66 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Of Human Bondage is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham.
- John Cromwell
The following year, however, she starred in Dangerous (1935) and won the Academy Award, though many believed that she really won because she had been denied the award for Of Human Bondage. Some things never change.
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…vicious, relentlessly unsympathetic Mildred in Of Human Bondage (1934), a film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel. Davis’s bravura performance as Mildred won her critical acclaim and industry respect, but studio politics prevented her from receiving an Academy Award.
