Guilty pleasure: One of Warner's best acted melodramas and Bette Davis's all-time favorite, in which she lives hard but dies in dignity as an heiress gone blind. Also Davis revenge as Tallulah Bankhead failed to bring the role to life in the 1934 play.
Dark Victory
I've crammed every minute so full of waste. And now there's so little time. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid!
1939 · 1h 44m · Approved
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Edmund Goulding
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Dark Victory
Overview
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
Director and cast
- Edmund Goulding Director
- Bette Davis as Judith Traherne
- George Brent as Dr. Frederick Steele
- Humphrey Bogart as Michael O'Leary
- Geraldine Fitzgerald as Ann King
- Ronald Reagan as Alec
- Henry Travers as Dr. Parsons
- Cora Witherspoon as Carrie
- Dorothy Peterson as Miss Wainwright
- Virginia Brissac as Martha
- Charles Richman as Colonel Mantle
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