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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 Werner finally did so…skeptically."Who wants to see a dame go blind?"he asked.
Almost everyone: Dark Victory was Davis' 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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