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Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville Director: Irving Rapper Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 117 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Release Date: June 14, 2005 Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1942 Studio: Warner Home Video
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A tender love story, a taut psychological drama, an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual transformation. Now, Voyager is all three, as well as a Bette Davis career milestone, resulting in her sixth Best Actress Oscar nomination. She magically plays Charlotte Vale, a spinster who defies her domineering mother fellow Oscar nominee Gladys Cooper to discover love, heartbreak and eventual contentment. More magic is generated by a top-notch ensemble, Max Steiner?s Academy Award-winning score and an improvised moment by Paul Henreid that became an instant classic: he lights two cigarettes at once and hands one to Davis. For the ultimate in romantic melodrama, it?s Now Voyager now, then and forever.
In this 1942 melodrama, founded on the novel by Olivia Higgins Prouty who also wrote the novel on which Stella Dallas was based, Bette Davis stars as Charlotte Vale, a dowdy, repressed woman who, overwhelmed by her domineering mother, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She finds help at a sanitarium from a kind psychiatrist Claude Rains, who turns her into a beautiful, confident woman. As a new person, she takes a pleasure cruise, where she meets Jerry Paul Henreid, an architect trapped in an unhappy marriage, saddled with a troubled daughter. The two fall in love, but, of course, the romance is doomed. Yet their paths cross on occasion, and, despite their feelings, Charlotte finds satisfaction in helping Jerry's depressed child. The film will seem familiar to new viewers--the campy style was the pattern for many tearjerkers to come, and its most famous line has been oft repeated "Don't ask for the moon--we have the stars". But the heartstrings are tugged, and as Paul Henreid chivalrously lights two cigarettes and hands one over to the doleful-eyed Davis, pull out the box of tissues--you're gonna need 'em. --Jenny Brown
