Now, Voyager
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| Now, Voyager | |
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| Directed by | Irving Rapper |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | Olive Higgins Prouty (novel) Casey Robinson |
| Starring | Bette Davis Paul Henreid Janis Wilson |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | October 22, 1942 (USA) |
| Running time | 117 min. |
| Language | English |
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Now, Voyager is a 1942 film which tells the story of a middle-aged spinster who, repressed by the domination of her mother, winds up in a sanatorium, where her self-confidence is boosted by an understanding psychiatrist. After a brief love affair during a cruise, she determines to help her lover's equally depressed daughter (Janis Wilson). It stars Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder, Ilka Chase, Lee Patrick, Franklin Pangborn and Mary Wickes.
The movie was adapted by Casey Robinson from the 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. It was directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay follows the novel very closely, except that in the book the cruise Charlotte takes is a Mediterranean, not a South American one.
It won the Academy Award for Original Music Score, and was nominated for Best Actress (Bette Davis) and Best Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper).
The title comes from the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want", which reads in its entirety: The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
Although not an original idea, the movie's most famous "bit" is having Paul Henreid put two cigarettes in his mouth, light both of them and hand one to Bette Davis.
The most famous line from this movie was said by the character Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) to Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid): "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
[edit] Trivia
- In the UK science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf, Kristine Kochanski says that when she watched this film, she was so choked up she couldn't speak for twenty minutes, to which Kryten mutters that the film is "worth keeping on stand-by."
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