Shining Victory

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Shining Victory
Directed by	Irving Rapper
Produced by	Hal Willis
Written by	A. J. Cronin (play) Howard Koch
Starring	James Stephenson Geraldine Fitzgerald Donald Crisp Barbara O'Neil
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Editing by	Warren Low
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date(s)	June 7, 1941
Running time	80 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Shining Victory is a 1941 film based on the play, Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil, and it was the first film directed by Irving Rapper. Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as a nurse in the film.

[edit] Plot summary

A brilliant research psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Venner, is driven out of Budapest by another researcher who has taken false credit for Venner's work. After going to London, Dr. Venner is offered a job in a Scottish sanitarium where he can continue his research on dementia precox, a disease from which his father had suffered.

Mary Murray, a pretty young doctor, becomes his laboratory assistant. They fall in love, though she has plans to go to China to engage in medical missionary work in a year's time. Paul convinces her to remain with him, and the two become betrothed. A fire breaks out in the lab and Mary tragically dies in an effort to salvage Paul's valuable records. The deeply distressed doctor turns down several posts at prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in China.

The working title of the film was Winged Victory, but this was changed after it was learned that Moss Hart was writing a play with that title. Hart's Winged Victory was filmed in 1944.

[edit] Cast

• James Stephenson as Dr. Paul Venner
• Geraldine Fitzgerald as Dr. Mary Murray
• Donald Crisp as Dr. Drewett
• Barbara O'Neil as Miss Leeming
• Montagu Love as Dr. Blake
• Sig Ruman as Professor Herman Von Reiter
• George Huntley, Jr. as Dr. Thornton
• Richard Ainley as Dr. Hale
• Bruce Lester as Dr. Bentley
• Leonard Mudie as Mr. Foster
• Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Foster
• Frank Reicher as Dr. Esterhazy
• Hermine Sterler as Miss Hoffman
• Billy Bevan as Chivers
• Clare Verdera as Miss Dennis
• Crauford Kent as Dr. Corliss
• Alec Craig as the jeweler
• Louise Brien as a nurse
• Bette Davis as a nurse

[edit] External links

• Shining Victory at Turner Classic Movies (trailer)

v • d • e Works by A. J. Cronin Novels Hatter's Castle • Three Loves • Grand Canary • The Stars Look Down • The Citadel • The Keys of the Kingdom • The Green Years • Shannon's Way • The Spanish Gardener • The Valorous Years • Beyond This Place • A Thing of Beauty/Crusader's Tomb • The Northern Light • The Native Doctor/An Apple in Eden • The Judas Tree • A Song of Sixpence • A Pocketful of Rye • The Minstrel Boy/Desmonde • Lady with Carnations • Gracie Lindsay Selected Short Stories & Story Collections "Kaleidoscope in 'K'" • Country Doctor (novella) • "Vigil in the Night" • Adventures of a Black Bag • The Innkeeper's Wife • Further Adventures of a Black Bag • Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae Play Jupiter Laughs Autobiography Adventures in Two Worlds UK/US Film & Television Adaptations Once to Every Woman • Grand Canary • The Citadel (film) • Vigil in the Night • The Stars Look Down • Shining Victory • Hatter's Castle • The Keys of the Kingdom • The Green Years • The Spanish Gardener • Web of Evidence • Dr. Finlay's Casebook • The Citadel (television)

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