Dangerous
Dangerous is a 1935 film which tells the story of an alcoholic actress who has fallen on hard times and is helped back to her feet by a fan, whose own engagement is threatened by his relationship with the actress. It stars Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay[?], Alison Skipworth[?], John Eldredge[?] and Dick Foran[?].It was written by Laird Doyle[?] and directed by Alfred E. Green[?].
It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Bette Davis).
In 2002, Steven Spielberg bought Davis's Oscar at auction at Sotheby's[?], and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuette had belonged to the Planet Hollywood[?] restaurant chain.
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Hsi Tsung, and became the paramour of that weak monarch's wet-nurse.
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deal with it. Aided by unworthy censors, a body of officials who are
censure him for misgovernment, he gradually drove all loyal men from
persuaded Hsi Tsung to enrol a division of eunuch troops, ten thousand
miscarriage, his paramour cleared his way to the throne. Many
wearied of loading him with favours. In 1626, temples were erected to
honours, and he was styled Nine Thousand Years, i.e. only one thousand
being /wan sui/, which has been adopted by the Japanese as /banzai/.
declaring that his virtue had actually caused the appearance of a
Confucius, and it was decreed that he should be worshipped with the
of Hsi Tsung, whose successor promptly dismissed him. He hanged
paramour was executed, and in 1629, nearly three hundred persons were
his schemes.
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