The movie is in black and white, it's about a young, rich woman who goes blind and is diagnosed with cancer or some other life threatening disease. Her doctor doesn't want to tell her about it, and lets her live her life. She ends up finding out in the end. That is all I can remember, if anyone can help that would be so helpful.
2007-09-14 11:09:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
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2007-09-14 11:23:48 · update #1
Dark Victory. Humphrey Bogart is in it, and Ronald Reagan has a small part as a drunk party-goer.
2007-09-14 11:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by waia2000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dark Victory (1939) is a sentimental, tragic and moving melodrama (a "weepie" or "woman's picture") from Warner Bros. studios - made in Hollywood's most famous and competitive year. The film contains an electrifying, compelling, tour de force, tear-jerking performance from its major star Bette Davis. It was a bit of a risk for the movie studio to make and publicize an intense film about a terminally-ill patient with "prognosis negative."
The protagonist is a young socialite-heiress named Judith Traherne (Davis), who suffers from a brain tumor and ultimately falls in love with her supportive and dedicated doctor Frederick Steele (Brent). In the midst of her deadly illness, she comforts her best friend Ann King (Fitzgerald), and courageously meets her fate when her eyesight dims. She climbs her stairs for the last time - accompanied by Max Steiner's swelling score in the film's finale. A title from a film trailer proclaimed: "The love story no woman will ever forget!"
The film's screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the brief and unsuccessful (due to its morbid subject matter) mid-30s Broadway play (starring Tallulah Bankhead) of the same name by George Emerson Brewer, Jr., and Bertram Bloch. David Selznick had originally purchased film rights, but gave up production plans for the property - and Warner Bros. picked up film rights.
The adult drama was nominated for three Academy Awards - Best Picture, Best Actress (for two-time Oscar winner Bette Davis), and Best Original Score by Max Steiner, but lost in all categories. [This was Davis' third Oscar nomination in five years, and her second of five consecutive nominations.] Gone with the Wind (1939) took the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actress (Vivien Leigh). Dark Victory was the second of Davis' four films with director Edmund Goulding - the others were That Certain Woman (1937), The Old Maid (1939), and The Great Lie (1941). Humphrey Bogart was completely miscast in a minor role as Michael O'Leary - an Irish stable groom/trainer, although Ronald Reagan as Alec Hamin, a bar-hopping, slightly decadent playboy, was effectively believable. The film was remade as Stolen Hours (1963) and as a made-for-TV movie in 1976 with Elizabeth Montgomery.
2007-09-14 18:24:55 · answer #2 · answered by advnturer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to IMDB, type in Bettie Davis. She starred in it. I'm not positive, but I believe the name of the movie is, Dark Victory.
2007-09-14 18:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋