Davis is really the only reason to watch this rather mawkish melodrama. The character she plays - Joyce Heath - was possibly modeled on twenties stage sensation Jeanne Eagels. Davis was noted for her electric, kinetic energy by a reviewer of the day who claimed that she would probably have been "burned as a witch" had she lived 300 years priorly.
Bette is particularly fine in the middle of the film, while playing cards with Don Bellows (Franchot Tone) and eating homemade candy; together, they are wonderfully believable and have an interesting chemistry. Notice Alison Skipworth speaking to Tone about women like Davis - who are - in her opinion - indeed dangerous.
It has been said that Bette was infatuated with Tone during the making of this epic and Joan of Crawford shrugged "Oh, I'm afraid that coarse little thing hasn't a chance with my Franchot" The cottage Bellows brings Joyce to in the country is really exquisite; I would like to live in such a place all the time! After about seven different titles, it was Davis who chose "Dangerous"
Bette is particularly fine in the middle of the film, while playing cards with Don Bellows (Franchot Tone) and eating homemade candy; together, they are wonderfully believable and have an interesting chemistry. Notice Alison Skipworth speaking to Tone about women like Davis - who are - in her opinion - indeed dangerous.
It has been said that Bette was infatuated with Tone during the making of this epic and Joan of Crawford shrugged "Oh, I'm afraid that coarse little thing hasn't a chance with my Franchot" The cottage Bellows brings Joyce to in the country is really exquisite; I would like to live in such a place all the time! After about seven different titles, it was Davis who chose "Dangerous"