Dangerous (film)

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Movie
Original title Dangerous
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1935
length 79 minutes
Rod
Director Alfred E. Green
script Laird Doyle
production Harry Joe Brown
Hal B. Wallis
Jack L. Warner
music Ray Heindorf
Heinz Roemheld
camera Ernest Haller
cut Thomas Richards
occupation

Dangerous is an American drama directed by Alfred E. Green from 1935. The screenplay is based on the play Hard Luck Dame by Laird Doyle. Bette Davis won her first Academy Award for her portrayal of Joyce Heath .

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Don Bellows is a prominent, successful architect based in New York and engaged to the beautiful and wealthy Gail Armitage. One day he meets Joyce Heath, who was once considered the most promising young actress on Broadway . Don feels a bond with Joyce as one of her previous appearances inspired him to become an architect.

While Don tries to get Joyce back into show business, he falls in love with her. Joyce then warns him that she is cursed and harms everything and everyone who has to do with her. Regardless, Don breaks off his engagement to Gail and risks his fortune so Joyce can appear on a Broadway show again. A day before the premiere he asks her if she wants to marry him, but Joyce evades and hides the fact that she is already married to the loving but impoverished Gordon Heath.

Joyce asks Gordon to get a divorce. When he refuses, Joyce causes a car accident that cripples Gordon for the rest of his life. Joyce's own injuries prevent her from appearing on the show that evening. Don is ruined, and when he finds out that Joyce has been deceiving him all along, he accuses her of being a completely selfish woman, which is the only curse on her.

Joyce then plans to kill herself , but eventually she gets the point in Don's statement. She then appears in the Broadway production and encourages Don to return to Gail and marry her, even though she actually really loves him. The show was a resounding success, and Joyce went to see Gordon to save her marriage .

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Bette Davis originally didn't want to shoot the film, but Warner Brothers Production Director Hal B. Wallis convinced her. As co-star for Davis was specially Franchot Tone of MGM borrowed. Davis was immediately attracted to Tone, even though he was already engaged to Joan Crawford at the time . Crawford is said to have known about the liaison between the two, but still did not break the engagement. Some biographers today suspect that this was the cause of the decades-long feud between the two actresses.

In 1941 there was a remake of the film under the title Singapore Women with Brenda Marshall in the lead role. Coincidentally, backdrops from The Secret of Malampur (1940), in which Bette Davis also participated, were used.

Davis, who won an Oscar for her portrayal , always viewed the award as a consolation prize, as she did not receive an Oscar for Of Human Bondage a year earlier . In 2002, Steven Spielberg anonymously bought her trophy and then returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . The statue is now an exhibit for the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain .

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