Dark Victory (1939)

1939 • 104 Minuten

Über diesen Film

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.

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Best ever performance by Bette Davis! Her character transforms, she grows as a person. Finding love, happiness. And the simplicity in life that brings her such completeness is her personal victory!

George Brent so unappreciated but no one could hold there own with BD like he could.

Bette Davis was superb in this role. My favorite movie of hers so far!! Her role as the tragic rich girl made me cry at the end!