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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.

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Plot

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.

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

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.

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