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Now, Voyager [Criterion Collection]
by Bette Davis (Charlotte Vale),
Paul Henreid (Jerry Durrance),
Claude Rains (Dr. Jaquith),
Gladys Cooper (Sra. Henry Vale),
Bonita Granville (June Vale),
John Loder (Elliott Livingston),
Ilka Chase (Lisa Vale),
Lee Patrick (`Deb' McIntyre),
James Rennie (Frank McIntyre),
Charles Drake (Leslie Trotter),
Katherine Alexander (Miss Trask),
Janis Wilson (Tina Durrance),
Mary Wickes (Dora Pickford),
Tod Andrews (Dr. Dan Regan),
Franklin Pangborn (Mr. Thompson),
David Clyde (William),
Claire DuBrey (Hilda),
Don Douglas (George Weston),
Charlotte Wynters (Grace Weston),
Frank Puglia (Manoel),
Lester Matthews (Captain),
Mary Field (Passenger),
Bill Edwards (Passenger),
Isabel Withers (Passenger),
Frank Dae (Passenger),
Hilda Plowright (Justine),
Tempe Pigott (Mrs. Smith),
Ian Wolfe (Lloyd),
Reed Hadley (Henry Montague),
Elspeth Dudgeon (Aunt Hester),
Constance Purdy (Rosa),
George Lessey (Uncle Herbert),
Corbet Morris (Hilary),
Yola D'Avril (Celestine),
Georges Renavent (Mons. Henri),
Dorothy Vaughan (Woman),
Sheila Hayward (Katie),
Hamilton Hunneker (Bill Kennedy),
Bill Kennedy (Hamilton Hunneker),
Tempe Piggott (Mrs. Smith),
Irving Rapper (Director),
Irving Rapper (Director),
Casey Robinson (Screenwriter),
Casey Robinson (Screenwriter),
Olive Higgins Prouty,
Hal B. Wallis (Producer),
Robert Haas (Art Director),
Warren Low (Editor),
Sol Polito (Cinematographer),
Willard Van Enger (Special Effects,Special Effects),
Max Steiner (Composer),
Max Steiner (Composer),
Fred MacLean (Set Design),
Robert B. Lee (Sound/Sound Designer)
Format: DVD
ISBN: 715515238014
Publication Date: 11/26/2019
Edition Description: Black & White
"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: ""Now voyager sail thou 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 Durrance (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 Jerry 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)."
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