Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Dark Victory (1939) and Herbert Rawlinson

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Portrait of Bette Davis as Angela in Dark Victory
Bette Davis lying sideways in Dark Victory.

Before I saw this I read the title and thought this was a war movie. I never thought it would be about a light and bubbly Bette Davis with a brain tumor.

Humphrey Bogart is in this, and I was halfway through the movie before I realized he was doing an Irish accent.

Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Herbert Rawlinson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Herbert Rawlinson.

Herbert Rawlinson was a lead actor in silent movies who became a character actor when sound appeared. He has a pretty small part in this as a doctor who finds a doctor who can handle brains better than himself. He’s my last missing star at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard. On to 6166!

This is another “I think this poster’s pretty funny if you know the sources (but you probably don’t)” poster.

A fake poster for Dark Victory mimicking the poster for Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.
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