Dark Victory: Kobal Collection
Dark Victory
(1939)GENRE Old-Fashioned Romance
INGREDIENTS Bette Davis suffers nobly and glamorously as she finds both true love and incurable illness.
YOU CAN SLEEP THROUGH Scenes with Humphrey Bogart, of all people, as an Irish-brogued horse trainer
STAY AWAKE FOR Scenes with Ronald Reagan, of all people, as a cynical, drunken playboy
HEALING POWERS Hey, a good cry can be healthy too!
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Now, Voyager is another classic Davis weepie. For an old-fashioned tear-jerker of more recent vintage, try Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were.
