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Now, Voyager is a Hollywood swooner with Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in a melodrama to end all melomers.

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• A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
• Boston spinster Charlotte has had her life controlled entirely by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Feeling despondent, she's convinced to spend time in a sanitarium. Soon she is transformed into a sophisticated, confident woman. On a cruise to South America, Charlotte meets and begins an affair with Jerry Durrance, a married architect. Six months later, she returns home and confronts her mother with her independence. One day, after a brief argument, her mother has a heart attack and dies. Charlotte inherits the Vale fortune but feels guilty of her mother's death. She returns to the sanitarium, where she befriends a depressed young adolescent, Tina. The young girl's depression was brought on by being rejected by her mother--Charlotte's former lover Jerry's wife. Charlotte takes Tina home to Boston with her. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Charlotte Vale has never been out from under the domination of her matronly mother until she enters a sanitarium. Transformed into an elegant, independent woman, Charlotte begins to blossom as an individual. On a cruise to South America, she meets and falls in love for the first time with a man named Jerry--who turns out to be married. Upon her return, Charlotte confronts her mother, who dies of a heart attack. Guilt-ridden and despondent, Charlotte returns to the sanitarium, where she meets Tina. a depressed young woman who begins to find happiness with her new friend Charlotte. The connection they share is more than friendship: Tina is Jerry's daughter. Through her friendship with Charlotte, Tina finds happiness, and the pair go back to Charlotte's home in Boston. When Jerry sees how happy his daughter is, he leaves her with Charlotte. What about marriage for Charlotte and Jerry? "Don't ask for the moon when we have the stars." — Ed Stephan <[email protected]>
• The love story of middle-aged spinster Charlotte Vale, who suffers a nervous breakdown because of her domineering mother and is finally freed after a brief love affair with Jerry, a man she meets while on a cruise after spending time in a sanitarium. They never marry, but through a miracle of chance she ends up looking after his daughter for a time. — Michael Stutz <[email protected]>
• Charlotte Vale is a dumpy, overweight spinster, never out of the sight of her domineering mother, the widowed matriarch of a wealthy Boston family. Charlotte has four older brothers and is always described by Mrs. Vale as an ugly duckling. Charlotte is high-strung and deeply depressed, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, due to the constant squashing of her thoughts by her mother. There is a little spark of independence, though--she secretly smokes and expresses some creativity by carving ivory boxes. Then a psychiatrist, Dr. Jaquith, is invited to tea by her sister-in-law Lisa Vale. He tells Charlotte that he can help her, that he can show her which path to take at the fork in the road. After an ugly scene with her niece June Vale, who is Lisa's daughter but displays Mrs. Vale's cruelty, Charlotte finally accepts Dr. Jaquith's offer and goes to the mountain retreat where he works. The hospital offers the attention and crucial building up of her self-esteem. She changes from a mouse to an attractive figure of social grace and appeal. On a holiday cruise, Charlotte tries out her new persona, the test run that Dr. Jaquith encouraged to evaluate her level of recovery. She grows comfortable with her new image, no longer awkward in company but aloof enough to be interesting. A French gentleman, Jerry Durance, becomes fascinated with her and soon is so in love with her that he can barely think of being without her. Charlotte loves him too, but knows that their affair must never be known, for Jerry is married, but unhappily tied to a wife who is cold, selfish and a hypochondriac. Yet he loves his children and his emotionally troubled youngest daughter, Tina. They part ways, at last, much to the agony of Jerry and the silent desperation of Charlotte. She returns to her home in Boston, and becomes involved with Elliot Livingston. But she doesn't love him and soon the engagement is over. Even worse, after an argument with Charlotte, Mrs. Vale has another heart attack and dies. Charlotte returns to the clinic for a break, emotionally overwrought. She meets a young girl who is very shy and not overtly pretty. Soon she discovers it is Tina, the daughter of Jerry. Charlotte takes Tina under her wing, believing in the ugly duckling and knowing that she can become a swan. After all, Tina is exactly how Charlotte was. How can she cope with seeing Jerry again, though? And know that Tina will never truly be her daughter, her flesh and blood. Charlotte develops a maternal bond with Tina and hopes only for Jerry's love. Even though he can never leave his wife. But to Charlotte, Tina is a piece of him; together they can love her. And she believes that they have the stars together now, they mustn't ask for the moon.

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Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.

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Now, Voyager (1942) review — a career-high turn from Bette Davis

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★★★★★ Unfairly criticised on its release for being lachrymose and soppy, this Bette Davis makeover movie has only become more affecting over time. Davis gives a captivating career-high turn as Charlotte Vale, the downtrodden daughter of the Boston super-snob Windle Vale (Gladys Cooper) who, through the course of the drama, must escape her traumatic past.

Yes, there is tentative romance with the sexy married father Jerry (Paul Henreid), but this is fundamentally a film about Freudian family dynamics. A perfect companion piece to Hitchcock’s Psycho (also about powerful mothers), it features the standout scene where Charlotte finally screams, “I’m my mother’s well-loved daughter! Her companion! Her servant! My mother! My mother! My mother!” The newly restored print also looks stunning. PG, 117min In cinemas

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It fits within the genre and it is a great show for Davis’s talents.

Davis gives a captivating career-high turn as Charlotte Vale...

It was directed by a certain Irving Rapper, who, quite possibly, may not be a fool. Unfortunately, this is how they degrade the tragic heroine of The Little Foxes, The Letter, Of Human Bondage.

This is a movie in which all the elements come together in perfect harmony to give an essentially hackneyed theme the imprint of greatness.

In this conflict between inner and outer beauty, loving oneself without the affirmation of others, altruism, self-truth vs societal expectation and discovering that happiness comes from within, Now, Voyager -- and its leading lady -- soars.

This film is exquisitely crafted and passionately acted.

Bette Davis, as the neurotic daughter, Claude Rains, the doctor, and Paul Henreid, combine to make a fine production.

It may be a standard tale of forbidden romance, but it dwells on an uncommon twosome; these past-their-prime souls aren't the typical fare for a melodramatic love yarn.

Tender, poignant and lusciously calibrated by Rapper, Now, Voyager is one of the few romantic melodramas which manages a timelessness due to its almost accidental universality.

...a part that's perfect for Davis, which makes it odd that Now, Voyager feels the need to do so much of the work for her.

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• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : October 22, 1942
• Languages : English
• Captions : English
• Audio Format : Stereo

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• Common Sense Media Nell Minow Lots of appeal for highly romantic teens.
• Slant Magazine Jeremiah Kipp Now, Voyager remains a highly narcotic, swoon-inducing romance in the Bette Davis canon.
• Film Freak Central Walter Chaw If you can resist Bette Davis in fat suit, hideous dress, and monobrow, you're not as gay as you think you are. I guess I kind of liked it.
• DVDTalk.com David Cornelius It's all far more complicated than it needs to be, but then again, what would you cut?
• Combustible Celluloid Jeffrey M. Anderson Compulsively watchable four-hankie weepie.
• Video-Reviewmaster.com Steve Crum Classic to the max, and with Davis, Henried, and those two cigarettes.
• Movie Metropolis John J. Puccio ...romantic and romanticized, sudsy and sentimental...a throwback to an earlier age in Hollywood when movies didn't have to be loud or vulgar to sell a point.
• Nick's Flick Picks Nick Davis Consummate Warner Bros. melodrama, with Bette excellent as misfit and even better as reborn glamour-puss.
• Mixed Reviews Gabriel Shanks The melodrama to end all melodramas.
• Filmcritic.com Christopher Null Wholly unbelievable.
• Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Ken Hanke Classic Davis soaper with Henreid doing the double cigarette bit.
• Filmsite Tim Dirks Now, Voyager (1942) is the quintessential, soap-opera or "woman's picture" ('weepie') and one of Bette Davis' best-acted and remembered films, coming shortly

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Although financially successful, the movie was panned by some critics who thought the story contrived but it received three Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Musical Score for Max Steiner. Bette Davis lost the Best Actress Award to Greer Garson for 'Mrs Miniver and Gladys Cooper lost the Best Supporting Actress Award to Teresa Wright, also for 'Mrs Miniver'.

The last words of the film: "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars," is ranked #46 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotes in American cinema. In 2007 the Library of Congress selected 'Now Voyager' for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Helped by eminent psychiatrist, Dr Jacquith, played by Claude Rains, Charlotte begins to blossom into an attractive young woman. On a cruise organised by Dr Jacquith she falls in love with Jeremiah Durrance, played by Paul Henreid but because he is already married they agree to part and never see each other again.

Charlotte returns home a changed woman and during an argument with her mother talks back strongly and her mother has a heart attack and dies. Shaken and feeling guilty, Charlotte returns to the clinic where she meets Tina, Jerry's daughter (played by Janis Wilson). Tina is suffering in exactly the same way that Charlotte suffered at the hands of a domineering mother and Charlotte is able to give her the help and support she needs. She now has a better understanding of what she values in life and she can tell Jerry that if she has the stars, she doesn't need the moon. She is the Voyager who set out to "seek and find." She found a sense of her true worth and inner peace.

It took some very active campaigning by Bette Davis to finally win her the plum role of Charlotte Vale. She was not the original choice of producer Hal B. Wallis for the lead and he considered Irene Dunne, Norma Shearer and Ginger Rogers for the part. Similarly other directors were considered by Wallis, such as Michael Curtiz and Edmund Goulding before Irving Rapper was chosen. Bette Davis liked his calm, non-antagonistic approach and he became an important influence on her career over the next decade, directing her in 'The Corn Is Green' in 1945, 'Deception' the following year and 'Another Man's Poison' in 1951.

The success of the movie was helped in no small way by the beautiful music by Max Steiner which enhances the drama and the romance. Similarly the transformation of Charlotte from browbeaten frump to glamorous woman of the world is highlighted and accentuated by her wonderful wardrobe, designed by the talented Orry-Kelly.

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