Now Voyager [VHS] Overview
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
Customer Reviews
Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is a dowdy spinster in a nervous breakdown, was led by the tyrannical mother. It occurs in a sanatorium and create an attractive woman and confident, ready to experience life on its terms. On a cruise he met Jerry (Paul Henried), a married man, he is charming and romantic, and fall in love.
This is a great film. physical and emotional transformation of Charlotte and her great passions are the things that make many female hearts racingincluding my own. Davis is a powerful, smart power, it was rightly nominated for an Oscar. Leading men are not all Henried smoother, and he pulled the cigarette already stupid double act with absolute composure, what his character flaws seem almost heroic. Tugging the heart Max Steiner score won an Oscar.
The film is pure fun escape with beautiful people, beautiful clothes, exotic locations, and, of course, love. A true classic romanticism that makes meImpotence. Highly recommended.
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