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Dark Victory is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edmund Goulding released in USA on 22 april 1939 with Bette Davis
Dark Victory (1939)
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Add to a movie listDark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Bette Davis and featuring George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers and Cora Witherspoon. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch, starring Tallulah Bankhead.
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Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a young, carefree, hedonistic Long Island socialite and heiress with a passion for horses, fast cars, and too much smoking and drinking. She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary and best friend Ann King (Geraldine Fitzgerald) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.Actors
Bette Davis
(Judith Traherne)
George Brent
(Dr. Frederick Steele)
Humphrey Bogart
(Michael O'Leary)
Geraldine Fitzgerald
(Ann King)
Henry Travers
(Dr. Parsons)
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