Dark Victory (Warner Bros.) (1939)

BETWEEN THE SCENES WITH BETTE DAVIS ON THE SET OF "DARK VICTORY" Reading clockwise — Bette and Geraldine Fitzgerald (featured with her in “Dark Victory") come out of the star's dressing-room-onwheels. Her pet pooch helps her study her lines. Last minute check-up on the all-important make-up. (Center) Bette enjoys a well-earned cup of tea. Mat 302—45c Film Bad Man Thrilled To ‘Go Straight’ (Current Reader) F real-life criminals got as big a thrill out of the chance to “go straight” as film killers do at the opportunity to reform, the country would have no crime problem, police forces could be disbanded, _ prisons closed, and the taxpayers would save a lot of money. The authority for that statement is Humphrey Bogart, who Mat 103—15c should know HUMPHREY what he’s talkBOGART ing about, for he is one of the prize criminals of the screen and recently he enjoyed the rare thrill of playing a comparatively sympathetic role in “Dark Victory,” the Warner Bros. picture starring Bette Davis which opens at the Radio City Music Hall next Friday. “T doubt if any actor really enjoys playing a vicious killer,” Bogart said. “I know I don’t, and I have played about as many of them as any man in pictures. Gangster roles have done all right by me, it’s true, and I have no cause to complain.” “Nevertheless I’m delighted to be playing a sympathetic role in ‘Dark Victory,’ even though I lose Bette Davis to George Brent. “This is my first sympathetic part since ‘Crime School’ and one of the very few I’ve had. “My current reformation won't last. P'll be at outs with the law again, But if Warner Bros, would let me, I’d go straight from now on. I wouldn’t even have to be placed on probation.” Page Sixteen NAMES IN THE NEWS Never Gets A_ Ride Ronald Reagan admired the thoroughbreds brought onto the “Dark Victory” set for horseshow scenes. Reagan, who can really ride, has been in three straight horse pictures. And he hasn’t been allowed to get near a horse. “Dark Victory,” the Warner Bros. picture which is Bette Davis’ latest starring vehicle, opens at the Radio City Music Hall today. Brogue’s In Vogue Geraldine Fitzgerald, the Irish actress who makes her American screen debut in “Dark Victory,” the Warner Bros. picture starring Bette Davis, which is now showing at the Music Hall, speaks with what she calls Aee ub | itn accent. That’s for her stage and screen work and it’s Mat 101—I15c Zola myo. Ss. € GERALDINE Pictish glish, only FITZGERALD slightly flavored with brogue. When, however, she really lets her tongue go in casual conversation, the brogue comes into its own, and _ shure, there’s no wondering where she might be from. Erin’s Contribution With two natives of Dublin playing the leading roles supporting Bette Davis, Ireland is well represented in the cast of Warner Bros.’ “Dark Victory,” which is now showing at the Music Hall. The Irish players are George Brent and Geraldine Fitzgerald. Miss Fitzgerald is a Hollywood newcomer who scored a brilliant hit on the New York stage in her first American appearance in “Heartbreak Home” last summer. Irish Meets Irish George Brent and _ Geraldine Fitzgerald were quarrelling ten minutes after they first met on the set of “Dark Victory,” the Warner Bros. picture now playing at the Music Hall. Miss Fitzgerald told Brent he didn’t know what he was doing and had no right to operate on Bette Davis. It was all a Mat 106—I5c part of the pic GEORGE BRENT ture. “But,” said Brent when the scene was ended, “what could be more natural when Irish meet.” He and Miss Fitzgerald were both born in Dublin. Younger Every Day Dorothy Peterson is having the enviable experience of growing younger each film role she plays. Formerly of the Broadway stage, the blonde Miss Peterson made her film debut in an old character part and became typed as an elderly woman. Recently, she has been playing women of her own age and is a young nurse in Warner Bros,’ “Dark Victory,” starring Bette Davis, which is currently showing at the Radio City Music Hall. Palm Tells All One of the closeups in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Victory,” now playing at the Music Hall, is of Bette Davis’ hands. “T’ll have no secrets left,” Miss Davis remarked after the shot was made. “Every palmist in the country will be reading my fortune and sending me advice about my future, my present, and past.” Bette Davis Heads ‘Best Dressed’ List (Fashion News Feature) MERICA’S twelve best-dressed women, selected in a poll of the nation’s leading designers, were announced recently by Emil Alvin Hartman, director of the Fashion Academy at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The nominees, chosen from a dozen fields of feminine activity on a basis of “ability to edit wardrobes in keeping with budgets so as to best bring out individual personalities,” included: Bette Davis, for the “yesterday” influence that has found its way off the screen into her personal wardrobe. Miss Davis, who recently won the Motion Picture Academy Award for the best screen performance of the year in “Jezebel,” adapted the crinoline fashions in that film to her own evening wardrobe with brilliant success. She is currently starring in “Dark Victory.” From the ranks of society, Mrs. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt was chosen as the fashion trail-blazer. Joan Blaine won the title of radio’s best-dressed, and Cobina Wright, Jr. was the standout among the “supper club” set. Benay Venuta, of the stage, was chosen for her “careful personal analysis,” and dancer Yolanda was honored for her “excellent color judgment.” “Smart femininity” won out in the debutante field, with honors going to Fernanda Wanamaker Munn. Osa Johnson, Mrs. Adam Gimble, Rose Bampton, Alice Marble and Kitty Carlisle completed the list. Bette Davis Launches New Vogue (Fashion Feature) ETTE DAVIS maintained her reputation in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Victory,” now playing at the Music Hall, by furthering the cause of fur trim for spring. Women of fashion recall that it was the dynamic Bette who put culottes in the style parade when she wore them in “Petrified Forest.” The mode for hoop-skirted evening gowns followed Bette’s Southern Belle role in “Jezebel.” The vogue for Gibson Girl styles swept the country after Bette wore them in “The Sisters.” Then Bette sponsored the cause of spring furs by purchasing the Orry-Kelly ensembles trimmed in silver fox and sable which she wore in “Dark Victory.” One of these stunning costumes consists of an ebow-sleeved bolero of silver fox worn over a slim black wool dress with long, fitted sleeves, and a beret type of hat in silver fox. The other outfit Bette considers ideal for a spring day in town combines a straight black broadcloth bands of fur are used at the coat trimmed in sable. Three horizontal bands of ur are used at the coat hemline, while vertical bands of it ornament the sleeves. Bette’s tiny muff is also of sable. Mat 113—15c BETTE DAVIS