Shining Victory is a 1941 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp and Barbara O'Neil. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was the first film directed by Rapper. It is based on the 1940 play Jupiter Laughs by A. J. Cronin.Goble p.99 Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as a nurse. The working title of the film was Winged Victory, but it was changed after it was discovered that Moss Hart was writing a play with this title. Hart's Winged Victory was filmed in 1944 by Twentieth Century Fox. Lead actor Stephenson died a month after the film premiered.
Plot Dr. Paul Venner, a brilliant research psychiatrist, is driven from Budapest by his superior, who has published and taken credit for Paul's work. In London, an old friend, Dr. Drewett, introduces him to the head of a Scottish sanatorium who offers him the opportunity to continue his research on dementia praecox, a disease from which Paul's father suffered.
Dr. Mary Murray becomes his laboratory assistant. They fall in love, but she plans to engage in medical missionary work in China in a year's time. Paul convinces her to remain with him, and the two become engaged. A fire breaks out in the lab, and Mary dies saving Paul's irreplaceable records. Heartbroken, Paul declines posts at several prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in war-torn China.
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 Ian Wolfe as Mr. Carew, a Banker Tempe Pigott as Miss Weatherby Mary Taylor as Mrs. Kent Bunny Beatty as Nancy Hormiston Alec Craig as Jeweller Louise Brien as Nurse Hilda Plowright as Nurse Ottola Nesmith as Nurse Bette Davis as Nurse Barlowe Borland as Patient Rudolph Anders as Police Officer Wolfgang Zilzer as Subordinate Claire Du Brey as Matron Paul Panzer as Mailman
See also List of American films of 1941
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.
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