Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.

In 2007, Now, Voyager was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The film rankson AFIs 100 Years... 100 Passions, a list of the top love stories in American cinema. Film critic Steven Jay Schneider suggests the film continues to be popular due not only to its star power but also the emotional crescendos engendered in the storyline. The film had a cameo appearance during the theatre scene in the movie Summer of 42.Drab Charlotte Vale Bette Davis is an unattractive, overweight, repressed spinster whose life is brutally dominated by her dictatorial mother Gladys Cooper, an aristocratic Boston dowager whose verbal and emotional abuse of her daughter has contributed to the womans complete lack of selfconfidence. It is revealed that Mrs. Vale had already brought up three sons, and Charlotte was an unwanted child born to her late in life. Fearing Charlotte is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her sisterinlaw Lisa Ilka Chase introduces her to psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith Claude Rains, who recommends she spend time in his sanatarium. ........

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