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Post by topbilled on Feb 23, 2024 16:44:17 GMT
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Post by NoShear on Feb 24, 2024 2:40:40 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Feb 24, 2024 16:12:00 GMT
Clever.
By the way, do we ever learn what Bette's ailment is in DARK VICTORY? Is it related to tuberculosis? Or is it a form of cancer?
The 1968 film BOOM! which is based on a work by Tennessee Williams has Liz Taylor suffering from TB.
In real life, I think Vivien Leigh died from a TB-related illness. And Robert Donat died from respiratory issues, though if memory serves, he was a life-long asthmatic.
The neighborhood where I live in Phoenix was originally settled by people from the east coast who came to breathe in the dry air for their lungs...it was a "tuberculosis colony" back in the day.
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Post by NoShear on Feb 24, 2024 16:30:12 GMT
Clever.
By the way, do we ever learn what Bette's ailment is in DARK VICTORY? Is it related to tuberculosis? Or is it a form of cancer?
The 1968 film BOOM! which is based on a work by Tennessee Williams has Liz Taylor suffering from TB.
In real life, I think Vivien Leigh died from a TB-related illness. And Robert Donat died from respiratory issues, though if memory serves, he was a life-long asthmatic.
The neighborhood where I live in Phoenix was originally settled by people from the east coast who came to breathe in the dry air for their lungs...it was a "tuberculosis colony" back in the day. I just looked it up, TopBilled, and honestly can type that I correctly guessed: a brain tumor. (I figured because of Bette Davis' character's encroaching blindness.) You correctly remembered about Robert Donat - to the point that his affliction impacted his choice of roles if I'm not mistaken, TopBilled. One of my parents' homes was purchased from a man who was moving to Arizona to die of lung cancer if I correctly recall. |
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Post by NoShear on Feb 24, 2024 16:46:37 GMT
^ Not to go all medical on you, TopBilled, but I'd already thought of posting the following last night - forgive the politics which I almost never drop but... While viewing Laura (1944), which was the main movie on T CM yesterday, I was reminded of Gene Tierney's damaged daughter, Antoinette Darla Cassini, as a result of contracting rubella during pregnancy with her... With this and Ron DeSantis' medical puppet controversy of late in mind - Rubeola:  Rubella:  - Gene Tierney's daughter was partially blind due to congenital cataracts. |
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Post by topbilled on Feb 24, 2024 16:52:01 GMT
Incidentally, Agatha Christie borrowed heavily from Gene Tierney's life when she wrote The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, which was published in 1962. The 1980 film version of the story, entitled THE MIRROR CRACK'D, has an aging Liz Taylor playing the Tierney-eseque actress whose baby was born with defects and that situation (spoiler alert) provides a motive for the killing.
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