Dangerous (film)

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Dangerous
Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Written by	Laird Doyle
Starring	Bette Davis Franchot Tone Margaret Lindsay
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Editing by	Thomas Richards
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	December 25, 1935
Running time	79 min.
Country	US
Language	English
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Dangerous is a 1935 drama film starring Bette Davis as an alcoholic actress who has fallen on hard times and is helped back to her feet by a fan (Franchot Tone), whose own engagement is threatened by his relationship with the actress. The film also stars Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge and Dick Foran.

Davis won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Don Bellows is a successful architect on the verge of marrying Gail and about to begin a landmark project that will make his name in New York City. One night, while out with some friends, he sees a drunken woman in bar and believes her to be an actress he admired some years before. He excuses himself from his fiancé and friends and introduces himself to the woman, who indeed is the actress Joyce Heath. Believing he can help Joyce, and he moves her to his country home to sober up. The two fall in love, and Don ends his engagement to Gail.

Don then decides to produce a play for Joyce, to put her back in the limelight. As the play is set to open, Don proposes marriage to Joyce, only to find out she has an estranged husband, Gordon, who refuses to grant her a divorce.

Upset that she has ruined Don's relationship with Gail, and believing she is a curse to any man she has a relationship with, Joyce devises a plan to kill herself and Gordon in a car accident.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cast

Bette Davis as Joyce Heath
Franchot Tone as Don Bellows
Margaret Lindsay as Gail Armitage
Alison Skipworth as Mrs. Williams
John Eldredge as Gordon Heath
Dick Foran as Teddy
Walter Walker as Roger Farnsworth
Richard Carle as Pitt Hanley

[edit] Awards

Davis won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Joyce Heath. She had been expected to win the previous year for Of Human Bondage (although she was not nominated) but lost out to Claudette Colbert, who won for It Happened One Night.

In 2002, Steven Spielberg bought Davis's Oscar at auction at Sotheby's, and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuette had belonged to the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.