Dark Victory

Dr Steele, on the point of retiring, is an idealist, who has found in human service a solution to the problems of life. He is a new type to Judith

She is drawn to him and he to her. Having recovered, she demands the truth, and he tells her she has only a few months to live. They have fallen deeply in love, but when Steele proposes she refuses, in the belief that he has asked her out of pity

He leaves for Vermont, while Judith returns to the fleshpots. She discovers, however, that alcohol and casual affairs no longer satisfy her, and after a few months she humbly goes to the doctor to spend the rest of her short existence with him

Produced on Broadway and as a motion picture