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Nov 12, 2007 · The value in “Dark Victory” lies in Mr. Sikov’s original analysis of the Davis films and acting style. He suggests that her early study of dance inspired the staccato speech rhythm and odd ...
Aug 2, 2016 · 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."
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Dark Victory is based on a 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch. The play was adapted for the movie by American screenwriter Casey Robinson. Dark Victory has been remade twice, first as Stolen Hours (1963) and then for television as Dark Victory (1976). Edit.
A wedding is planned and the move to Vermont. But Judith uncovers the secret and flies into a rage at the treachery, breaking off the engagement. She tries to drown her sorrow of impending doom in drink, a frivolous dalliance with a drunken suitor (Ronald Reagan), and a more serious dalliance with her horse-trainer, Michael (Humphrey Bogart ...
Nov 4, 2007 · DARK VICTORY The Life of Bette Davis. By Ed Sikov. Illustrated. 479 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. Rex Reed is a film critic for The New York Observer. Share full article.
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 ...
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.
