Dark Victory (1939)

Socialite Judith Traherne is enjoying high society's appeals when, as fate would have it, Dr. Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. In the midst of her "therapy" she falls for Dr. Steele, but the latter’s aware of the nearly certain possibility that the tumor will once again invade her brain, as a terminal cancer form, and kill her. Meanwhile Judith's horse trainer, who is secretly in love with her, encourages her to "seize the day," In doing so, she marries Steele, who becomes determined to find a cure for her illness. But when business calls Steele away from his wife, complications with her eyesight hint at the encroachment of a crisis that Dr. Steele is helpless to avoid.

The cast includes: George Brent, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Cora Witherspoon, and Henry Travers.

Directed by: Edmund Goulding.