Dark Victory • The Next Reel

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Aug 3, 2023 · 56m

“When you get inside my head, see if you can find any sense in it.”

Bette Davis Dealing with and Dying From Glioma

There’s a strength in storytelling that can exist in disease films because we’re following a person as they’re going through a very difficult period in their life that could very well end in death. That’s one of the elements that drew Bette Davis to the play “Dark Victory,” of which she had a hard time convincing Jack Warner that audiences would love it. He was wrong and she proved correctly, however, that a tragic story with your protagonist dying from the disease could draw in…