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Dark Victory Overview:

Dark Victory (1939) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Hal B. Wallis and David Lewis.

Academy Awards 1939 --- Ceremony Number 12 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActressBette DavisNominated
Best Music - ScoringMax SteinerNominated
Best PictureWarner Bros.-First NationalNominated
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Dark Victory BlogHub Articles:

Dark Victory (1939): Bette Davis at Her Best

By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 8, 2020 From 4 Star Films

Dark Victory reminds one how eclectic the Warner Bros. stock company was in 1939 because, in a Bette Davis vehicle, the first visage to present itself is none other than a wry Humphrey Bogart. The movie is a veritable grab bag of assorted talent from Bogart to Ronald Reagan and even kindly, bushy-br... Read full article

From the Archives: Dark Victory ( 1939 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 9, 2019 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Geraldine Fitzgerald and Bette Davis are grinning in the presence of a young Ronald Reagan in this scene from Dark Victory ( 1939 ). Little did they know that he would one day become President of the United States. Unfortunately, Reagan's character spent most of this picture in a drunken state...but... Read full article

Watching 1939: Dark Victory

on Jul 26, 2018 From Comet Over Hollywood

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th... Read full article

Dark Victory (1939, Edmund Goulding)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 5, 2018 From The Stop Button

Bette Davis and George Brent never kiss in Dark Victory. He’s a brilliant neurosurgeon, she’s a mysteriously ill young socialite. He saves her, they fall in love. But does he really save her…. Victory gives Davis an excellent part, right up until the end of the film. It’s a somewhat bumpy ri... Read full article

Dark Victory (1939)

By Cameron on Feb 2, 2015 From The Blonde At The Film

via: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2014/4/17/seasons-of-bette-dark-victory-1939.html Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. Dark Victory is a melodrama par excellence, a three-hanky weepie starring one of the masters of the genre, Bette Davis. Variety noted that the “picture is s... Read full article

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Dark Victory Quotes:

Judith: Excuse me, kids, I've won a prize.
Michael O'Leary: What good's ridin' and fightin' these days? What does it get ya?
Judith: Nothing can hurt us now. What we have can't be destroyed. That's our victory - our victory over the dark. It is a victory because we're not afraid.
Judith: I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!.
Judith: Moving to Vermont are you? What do you do there in between yawns?
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Dark Victory Facts
The second of Bette Davis collaborations with director Edmund Goulding. They had previously worked together on That Certain Woman and would do so again on The Old Maid and The Great Lie.
In 1938, Barbara Stanwyck and Melvyn Douglas starred in a Lux Radio Theatre version of the play, and in 1939 Bette Davis and Spencer Tracy starred in another radio version of the story.
This was Bette Davis' third Oscar nomination in five years, and her second of five consecutive nominations.
Bette Davis pestered Warner Brothers to buy the rights to the story, thinking it a great vehicle for her. WB studio chief Jack L. Warner fought against it, arguing that no one wanted to see someone go blind. Of course, the film went on to become one of the studio's biggest successes of that year.
This was Bette Davis' biggest moneymaker up to that point in her career.
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