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Now, Voyager [1942 film]

by Irving Rapper (Director), Olive Higgins Prouty (Novel), Casey Robinson (Screenwriter)

Other authors: Katherine Alexander (Actor), Ilka Chase (Actor), Gladys Cooper (Actor), Bette Davis (Actor), Bonita Granville (Actor)10 more, Paul Henreid (Actor), John Loder (Actor), Franklin Pangborn (Actor), Lee Patrick (Actor), Sol Polito (Cinematographer), Claude Rains (Actor), James Rennie (Actor), Max Steiner (Composer), Hal B. Wallis (Producer), Mary Wickes (Actor)

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A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
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    King Lear by William Shakespeare (lucyknows)
    lucyknows: King Lear could be successfully paired with the film adaptation of Now Voyager by Irving Rapper
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    Now, Voyager by Olive Higgins Prouty (2wonderY)
    2wonderY: This is the book the movie is based on. Excellent read.
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MOGU3 | Drama & Romance | .M4V | Protected | 1.38 Gigabits | 1486 Kilobits Per Second | 640 Frame Width | 480 Frame Height | 0.10 Frames/Second | 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
  5653735991n | Jun 19, 2023 |
A woman with an overbearing mother has a nervous breakdown, then falls in love with a married man.

2/4 (Indifferent).

Unlikable characters, in a relationship we don't want to see happen, with no chemistry. ( )
  comfypants | Feb 11, 2020 |
This copy was taped from TV (TCM). It is a contemporary romance (1941). I watched it sporadically, and was not inclined to pursue it further. ( )
  librisissimo | Jan 29, 2019 |
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Maybe the 1940s were the very last period in which this story would make sense. It was released during wartime, and though there is nothing in it about the war (again, unlike Casablanca) the war makes relevant its themes of self-sacrifice and transcending one’s own emotional unhappiness. At the same time, it is almost ecstatically driven by unhappiness: emotional rocket fuel. Davis’s performance is at once spiky and angular and yet also soft, sensual and vulnerable. The excellent Henreid is perfectly cast. This film is exquisitely crafted and passionately acted.
 
Repressed spinster Bette Davis awakens to the joys of life and Paul Henreid in Irving Rapper’s classic 1942 study in schmaltz. Not great filmmaking, but indispensable to students of 40s pop culture. This is the one in which Henreid lights two cigarettes at once, a show of dexterity that his subsequent career never equaled. The aggressive score is by Max Steiner; with Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, and John Loder
added by Lemeritus | editChicago Reader, Dave Kehr (Oct 18, 1985)
 
"Now, Voyager," either because of the Hays office or its own spurious logic, endlessly complicates an essentially simple theme. For all its emotional hair-splitting, it fails to resolve its problems as truthfully as it pretends....It is in these endless renunciations that the story moves from a direct and common-sense dramatic treatment into a prudish fantasy. Chained to a personal unhappiness, the lover's refusal to consummate his love for Miss Davis itself becomes a suspicious symptom. His nobility is phony—in his self-enforced martyrdom he is no less neurotic than the woman he has helped to bring to life.... Although "Now, Voyager" starts out bravely, it ends exactly where it started—and after two lachrymose hours.
added by Lemeritus | editNew York Times, T.S. (Oct 23, 1942)
 
Now, Voyager, an excursion into psychiatry, is almost episodic in its writing. It affords Bette Davis one of her superlative acting roles, that of a neurotic spinster fighting to free herself from the shackles of a tyrannical mother. A spinster still recalling the frustration of a girlhood love.
added by Lemeritus | editVariety (Dec 31, 1941)
 

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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Rapper, IrvingDirectorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Prouty, Olive HigginsNovelmain authorall editionsconfirmed
Robinson, CaseyScreenwritermain authorall editionsconfirmed
Alexander, KatherineActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chase, IlkaActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cooper, GladysActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Davis, BetteActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Granville, BonitaActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Henreid, PaulActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Loder, JohnActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Pangborn, FranklinActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Patrick, LeeActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Polito, SolCinematographersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rains, ClaudeActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rennie, JamesActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Steiner, MaxComposersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wallis, Hal B.Producersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wickes, MaryActorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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