Dark Victory

...and confronts Steele, who admits the truth. She agrees to remain silent. Ronald Reagan and Bette Davis (center, left to right) in the film's trailer Judith and Steele become involved romantically and eventually engaged. While helping his...

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Last updated: Wednesday September 30, 2009, 2:12 PM DARK VICTORY - Bette Davis gives one of her most memorable performances in this classic 1939 weeper, casting her as a social butterfly whose carefree life comes crashing down when she is...

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...dish for comic magicians Penn & Teller. Michelle Bernstein of Michy's restaurant in Miami serves as a guest judge (10 p.m. Bravo). Dark Victory: Bette Davis gives one of her most memorable performances in this classic 1939 weeper. With...

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...stars of all time: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn. Films such as Now, Voyager, Mildred Pierce, Dark Victory and Blonde Venus were the stories of mothers and daughters, women struggling for power,...

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</p><p>Is it a cosmic coincidence that her new film, "The Time Traveler's Wife," includes a clip of Bette Davis in that classic weeper "Dark Victory"? McAdams might have been Davis. Or Joan Crawford. Or Myrna Loy. Alas, she lives in the wrong...

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...by novelists, playwrights, and other grown-ups.) Those men worked their employees hard. Bette Davis starred in four movies in 1939: "Dark Victory,'' "Juarez,'' "The Old Maid,'' and "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. '' Character...

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...selected, you'd be losing five extraordinary films," Ganis said. That Sid -- such a kidder! He knows perfectly well that flicks like "Dark Victory," "Wuthering Heights," "Ninotchka," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "Of Mice and Men" don't stand a...

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...the greatest year ever for best pix nominees is generally considered to be 1939, when the contenders were: "Stagecoach," "Wuthering Heights," "Dark Victory," "Love Affair," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," "Ninotchka," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,"...

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...Life The legendary film star Bette Davis was what might charitably be called a real piece of work. According to Ed Sikov, author of Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, many who knew her often put it more bluntly. Barbara Stanwyck, no...

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...Mommie Dearest -type broadside have written everything they know, the question is What else is there to say? With Ed Sikov s Dark Victory as evidence, I submit that the answer is a reluctant Nothing much. Sikov, who has written...

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