Now, Voyager with Bette Davis: DVD Cover
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Now, Voyager Director: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Bonita Granville

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  • DVD Release Date: 06/14/2005
  • Original Release: 1942
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 1,464

Viewer Rating: (5 ratings)

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Closed Caption; Scoring session music cues; Cast career highlights; Theatrical trailer; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English, Français, Español & Português

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Credits [1:06]
2. Dr. Jaquith [2:48]
3. About Charlotte [3:11]
4. Charlotte's Room [3:35]
5. Shipboard Romance [4:36]
6. Mother Dread [1:54]
7. Breaking Point [2:14]
8. Now, Voyager [3:21]
9. Typical Tourists [2:27]
10. True Identities [2:54]
11. Gifts All Around [2:00]
12. Borrowed Wings [3:24]
13. Together and Alone [3:30]
14. About Jerry [3:12]
15. Wrong-way Ride [4:42]
16. The Cabin; Jerry's... [2:21]
17. Immune to Happiness [3:32]
18. Airport Farewell [1:54]
19. Girl Most Popular [2:53]
20. Mother's Welcome [4:54]
21. New Ground Rules [3:40]
22. Mother's Tumble [1:03]
23. Lighting a Fire [2:57]
24. Not Afraid [3:58]
25. Elliot's Courtship [3:28]
26. Encountering Jerry [3:27]
27. Back Bay Station [4:21]
28. Broken Engagement [2:51]
29. "I Did It!" [3:05]
30. A Girl Like Herself [4:24]
31. Call Me Tina [4:00]
32. Jerry's Child in My Arms [3:04]
33. Her New Friend [4:24]
34. Camping with Charlotte [2:15]
35. Party Guests [2:33]
36. Like Our Child [4:01]
37. A Cigarette On It [1:51]
38. The Stars [1:23]

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Editorial Reviews

Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson. Davis plays repressed Charlotte Vale, dying on the vine thanks to her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). All-knowing psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) urges Charlotte to make several radical changes in her life, quoting Walt Whitman's "Now, voyager, sail forth to seek and find." Slowly, Charlotte emerges from her cocoon of tight hairdos and severe clothing to blossom into a gorgeous fashion plate. While on a long ocean voyage, she falls in love with Jerry Durrence (Henreid), who is trapped in a loveless marriage. After kicking over the last of her traces at home, Charlotte selflessly becomes a surrogate mother to Jerry's emotionally disturbed daughter (a curiously uncredited Janis Wilson), who is on the verge of becoming the hysterical wallflower that Charlotte once was. An interim romance with another man (John Loder) fails to drive Jerry from Charlotte's mind. The film ends ambiguously; Jerry is still married, without much chance of being divorced from his troublesome wife, but the newly self-confident Charlotte is willing to wait forever if need be. "Don't ask for the moon," murmurs Charlotte as Max Steiner's romantic music reaches a crescendo; "we have the stars." In addition to this famous line, Now, Voyager also features the legendary "two cigarettes" bit, in which Henreid places two symbolic cigarettes between his lips, lights them both, and hands one to Charlotte. The routine would be endlessly lampooned in subsequent films, once by Henreid himself in the satirical sword-and-sandal epic Siren of Baghdad (1953). Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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A true classic...maybe my favorite of all Bette Davis' moviesby Anonymous

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August 24, 2009: This story is an amazing story of a woman who overcomes her mother's oppression to blossom and love compassionately, fully and without hidden motivation. She manages to pass on what she has learned to another in her previous position in life...unloved and oppressed. If you have ever felt unloved or not wanted, this movie will bring tears to your eyes. The dialog is incredible. There are some amazing exchanges between characters that need to be played again and again to hear all the nuances of the conversation. The acting by Bette Davis, Claude Rains and all the supporting cast is outstanding. Costumes and scenery are so well thought out and support the story well.

This movie brings to the screen a very special kind of love that is not found often. Classic movies like this are rare. Viewers will enjoy the subleties of this movie that speak volumes more than the movies of today.

Far Fetched??by Anonymous

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September 15, 2006: This classic hails from the days when lovers could sleep together fully dressed, never consummating their love, and when doctors could do just what they felt was best for their patients without fear of being sued. Halcyon days indeed, before political correctness and post modernism coloured society's views of just what ethics might be. This film portrays with devastating accuracy 1. Some of the emotions that are stirred in a nervous breakdown 2. Some of the unintentioned trauma caused by a parent's failure to see things through a child's eyes 3. Some of the pain which kindness can inflict. Depending on which side of a breakdown you are, you may not appreciate the first of these points. In writing the second, I am thinking of not of the domineering mother, but the anguished father. And for the third, how many wives will never understand what a husband may have tried to be to them.


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