Bette Davis at her best!
“Now, Voyager,” one of Bette Davis’ most famous Warner Brothers melodramas, achieved great popularity when it was released in 1942. This variation of the Cinderella story updates the fairy tale to contemporary New England.<br /><br />Charlotte Vale (Davis) is the depressed and sexually repressed daughter of a domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). Overweight and dowdy, she is insecure with low self esteem. At the sanitarium of psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains), away from her mother’s control, she blossoms into a mature, attractive, confident woman and decides to take a cruise to Rio before returning home. On the ship, she meets Jerry (Paul Henreid) and they fall in love. But Jerry is married and can’t consider divorce. They part, and Charlotte returns home, where an argument results in her mother’s heart attack and death.<br /><br />Guilty and distraught, Charlotte returns to the sanitarium. There, she meets Jerry’s lonely, unhappy 12-year-old daughter Tina. The girl reminds Charlotte of herself, and she takes her under her wing. Their relationship unintentionally provides a way back to Jerry.<br /><br />The title of the movie is based on a line from a Walt Whitman poem that Dr. Jaquith gives to Charlotte: “Now, voyager, sail forth and seek and find.” Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, the film was classified as a “woman’s picture” because it dealt with a female central character and appealed primarily to a female audience. This was a genre that Bette Davis dominated from the late 1930’s through the early 1950s in such films as “Jezebel,” “The Old Maid,” “Dark Victory,” “The Great Lie,” and “Mr. Skeffington.”<br /><br />In “Now, Voyager,” Davis gets to act up a storm as the frumpy Charlotte we see early in the movie, as the person in transition from scared and insecure child-woman to confident adult, and as the lovely young woman in love. Davis’ rich and textured portrayal as Charlotte slowly emerges from her years of repression into a beauty with a mind of her own is a tour de force. This was Bette Davis’ seventh of eleven Best Actress nominations.<br /><br />Gladys Cooper provides an icy portrayal of Mrs. Vale, who is perhaps one of the screen’s first examples of parental psychological and emotional abuse.<br /><br />Though decidedly melodramatic, “Now, Voyager” has stood the test of time because of Davis’ performance, the iconic image of Paul Henreid lighting two cigarettes at once and handing one to Davis, and the often-quoted curtain line.<br /><br />Psychiatry in the film is portrayed as a process in which conversation initially wins the confidence of the patient and the patient is removed from circumstances that have caused the pain — in this case, Charlotte’s mother. Rains has an ease of performing and a reassuring voice. His Dr. Jaquith speaks to Charlotte not as a needy child but as an adult. Gradually, Charlotte is motivated to assert herself and embrace her new-found independence. Though the viewer might suspect that he and Charlotte would wind up living happily ever after together, the script happily avoids that cliche and deals with the complexities of a troubled life in repair.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Blu-ray release include an except from “The Dick Cavett Show” from 1971 featuring Bette Davis; interview with actor Paul Henreid from 1980; selected-scene commentary on the film’s score; a making-of featurette; a look at the costumes in “Now, Voyager;” 2 radio adaptations of the film; and a booklet containing supplemental materials.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother (Gladys Cooper), and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist (Claude Rains) gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man (Paul Henreid). Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother’s grip—but will she find fulfillment as well as independence? Made at the height of Davis’s reign as the queen of the women’s picture and bolstered by an Oscar-winning Max Steiner score, Now, Voyager is a melodrama for the ages, both a rapturous Hollywood romance and a poignant saga of self-discovery. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1971 with actor Bette Davis • Interview with Paul Henreid from 1980 • Selected-scene commentary on the film’s score by professor Jeff Smith • New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme on the making of the film • New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen • Two radio adaptations from 1943 and 1946 • PLUS: An essay by scholar Patricia White and a 1937 reflection on acting by Davis.