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#classicmovienight last night I watched the 1939 classic “Dark Victory” starring the incredible Bette Davis along with Humphrey Bogart (in one of his earlier roles before becoming the leading man of film noir in the 40s), George Brent & a young Ronald Reagan LONG before he became President in his breakthrough role as an actor 😊

1939 is widely regarded by many film critics and fans alike as the greatest year in film history with a lot of movies that year that are considered some of the greatest movies ever made like Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Gunga Din and many others and this movie is also one of them 😊

It’s one of the movies that made Bette Davis a household name in Hollywood and made her the legend that she is today before this movie she already had hit films like her breakthrough role in Of Human Bondage, Marked Woman (the movie that marked her comeback after a long legal battle with Warner Bros. to have better roles in films) & her biggest hit at the time Jezebel and this movie would only further her success as an actress 😊

Long before Ronald Reagan became a politician and POTUS he was an actor in Hollywood during the golden age & again this is Reagan’s breakthrough role as an actor he was in 12 films most of them being just supporting/minor roles and Dark Victory would make him a star & he would later star in other big films like Santa Fe Trail, The Bad Man and the biggest film of his career the Oscar-nominated Kings Row (it’s also his favorite) but his career got disrupted due to the war and after the war he went back to acting but never regained the stardom that he had in the late 30s to early 40s he had some decent roles like Storm Warming, The Last Outpost & Hellcats of the Navy (in which he co-starred with his wife Nancy who was also an actress at the time) but never had any major roles then so he turned to television and eventually of course went into politics and well the rest is history 😊

The movie was nominated for 3 Oscars that year: Best actress for Bette Davis, Best original score for Max Steiner & the big one Best Picture but unfortunately lost to both Gone With The Wind & the Wizard of Oz