The 1934 film was the first film to bring real critical success to its star Bette Davis, her over-the-top, theatrical performance was passed over for a Best Actress Oscar nomination, although she was an unofficial write-in candidate. The RKO film, directed by John Cromwell, tells the story of a club-footed, sensitive artist Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), an Englishman who has been studying painting in Paris for four years, but is advised by his art teacher that his work is mediocre and second-rate, and that he lacks promise. So he returns to London, England to take up studies to become a medical doctor, but his older age and introspection make it difficult for him to keep up in his scholastic work. In England, he becomes infatuated – and then obsessed by a blonde, lower-class, slatternly and vulgar, Cockney-accented, illiterate tearoom waitress named Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis).
Of Human Bondage is a 1934 Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. which finally was being enforced four years after it was adopted. “I made it very clear that Mildred was not going to die of a dread disease looking as if a Debutante had missed her noon nap. The last stages of tuberculosis, poverty and neglect are not pretty and I intended to be convincing-looking. We pulled no punches and Mildred emerged . . . as starkly real as a pestilence.”
Reflecting on her performance in later years, Davis said, “My understanding of Mildred’s vileness – not compassion but empathy – gave me pause . . . I was still an innocent. And yet Mildred’s machinations I miraculously understood when it came to playing her. I was often ashamed of this . . . I suppose no amount of rationalization can change the fact that we are all made up of good and evil.”
Nervous about audience reaction to her performance, Davis opted not to attend a preview of the film in Santa Barbara, California, although her mother Ruth and husband Harmon O. Nelson went. Ruth later related, “For one hour and a half of horrible realism, we sat riveted without speaking a word, with only a fleeting glance now and then at each other. We left the theater in absolute silence. Neither of us knew what to think, for we felt the picture would make or break her, but would the public like the unpleasant story as well as the people at the preview seemed to?” Upon arriving home, her husband told Davis he thought her performance, while “painfully sincere,” might harm her career.
One reaction RKO executives never expected to hear at the preview was laughter. After watching the film several times, they felt the Max Steiner score was to blame, and the composer wrote a new one that included a Motif for each of the principal characters.
The film premiered at Radio City Music Hall on June 28, 1934, and went into general release on July 20. The generally rave reviews upset Warner executives, who were embarrassed one of their contract players was being acclaimed for a film made at another studio, and they tried to exclude its title from any publicity about Davis. Although her nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress was considered a sure thing by many, she was ignored in favor of Grace Moore for One Night of Love, Norma Shearer for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and eventual winner Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night. Angry voters ignored the nominees on their ballots and wrote in Davis’ name,
Cast
Leslie Howard ….. Philip Carey
Bette Davis ….. Mildred Rogers
Frances Dee ….. Sally Athelny
Kay Johnson ….. Norah
Reginald Denny ….. Harry Griffiths
Alan Hale, Sr. ….. Emil Miler
Reginald Sheffield ….. Cyril Dunsford
Reginald Owen ….. Thorpe Athelny
Tempe Pigott …..Agnes Hollet, Philip’s landlady
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