- Shining Victory
Infobox Film
name = Shining Victory
director =Irving Rapper
producer = Hal Willis
writer =A. J. Cronin (play)
Howard Koch
starring =James Stephenson Geraldine Fitzgerald Donald Crisp Barbara O'Neil
music =Max Steiner
cinematography =James Wong Howe
editing = Warren Low
distributor =First National Pictures
released =June 7 , 1941
runtime = 80 min.
country =U.S.A.
language = English
country = USA
imdb_id = 0034184"Shining Victory" is a 1941 film based on the play, "
Jupiter Laughs ", byA. J. Cronin . It starsJames Stephenson ,Geraldine Fitzgerald ,Donald Crisp , andBarbara O'Neil , and it was the first film directed byIrving Rapper .Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as anurse in the film.Plot summary
A brilliant research
psychiatrist , Dr. Paul Venner, is driven out ofBudapest by another researcher who has taken false credit for Venner's work. After going toLondon , Dr. Venner is offered a job in a Scottishsanitarium where he can continue his research ondementia 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 medicalmissionary 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.Cast
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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 nurseExternal links
* [http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=3290 "Shining Victory" at Turner Classic Movies] (trailer)
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