Dark Victory (play)

Dark Victory is a 1934 Broadway play written by George Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch starring Tallulah Bankhead.

Steele is in the midst of closing his New York City office in preparation of a move to Brattleboro, Vermont, where he plans to devote his time to brain cell research.

When the script reached Bankhead again, Jock Whitney, wealthy industrialist and her sometimes-lover, assured her that the play's deficiencies were corrected as Maxwell Anderson had revised it.

David O. Selznick was considering filming Dark Victory with Greta Garbo, but Bankhead was uninterested in serving as a dry run for another actress.

In the Sun, Richard Lockridge wrote: "Miss Bankhead gives an altogether admirable performance for the first sane act and a half.

"[2] Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune wrote of the scene where Judith, at her nadir, considers giving herself to the groom at her estate stables.

reported that several spectators in the first-night audience had passed out in response to the intensely realistic medical examination Tallulah received in the opening scene.

[4] On April 4, 1938, Barbara Stanwyck and Melvyn Douglas starred in a 60-minute adaptation of the stage play on Lux Radio Theatre.

[6] On March 6, 1952, CBS Radio's Hollywood Sound Stage aired a condensed 30-minute version starring Stanwyck and David Brian.

[7][8] In 1953, the film was remade under its original title for a TV adaptation for the Broadway Television Theatre, starring Sylvia Sidney, Christopher Plummer, and Ian Keith.