Bette Davis’s Bid for Statuette

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 11

Bette Davis’s Bid for Statuette

MICHAEL ARLEN’S “THE GOLDEN ARROW." (Meteor: Screening Friday.) Motion picture fans were not surprised when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its trophy to Bette Davis, young Warner Bros, star, for the best acting of the year in ‘ 'Dangerous.’ ’ Now she makes her bid for honours in an entirely different role, the appealing young pawn of fate in Michael Arlen’s comedy of love, millions and fortune hunters, “The Golden Arrow," the First National production. Others in the cast include George Brent, Carol Hughes, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds, and Henry O’Neill. Alfred E. Green directed. The gold statuette of honour for the best male performer went to Victor McLagen for his work in “The Informer."

Other honours also came to the Warner Bros, camp in the selection of Hal Molir as having done the best photography of the year in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream," the naming of “Captain Blood" as the third best picture, and the tribute to Paul Muni, who achieved the only “write in success’’ in the acting lists, finishing second to McLaglen for his work in “The Life of Louis Pasteur."

Miss Davis has been steadily and quietly climbing to her present position as the leading screen actress of the year, by consistent work in a number c. roles that many other stars would have hesitated to portray. As “Mildred," in “Of Human Bondage” she was the most unpleasant character imaginable. Another

“meanie" role came with Paul Muni in “Bordertown," and in “Dangerous," which brought her the Academy award, she was a girl who brought ruin or death to everyone who loved her.

Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, well-known to radio listeners in America, comes to the screen for Paramount’s “The Big Broadcast of 1 1938," starring W. C. Fields.