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Now, Voyager (1942)

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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson. Davis plays repressed Charlotte Vale, dying on the vine thanks to her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). All-knowing psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) urges Charlotte to make several radical changes in her life, quoting Walt Whitman: "Now voyager sail thou forth

Unrated, 1 hr. 57 min.

Drama, Romance, Classics

Casey Robinson

Nov 13, 2001

MGM Home Entertainment

Cast

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (2) | DVD (12)

A superlative, juicy mother-daughter melodrama with top notch performance from Bette Davis, at the top of her form, and the rest of the cast.

March 5, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Lots of appeal for highly romantic teens.

December 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

If you can resist Bette Davis in fat suit, hideous dress, and monobrow, you're not as gay as you think you are. I guess I kind of liked it.

June 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

It's all far more complicated than it needs to be, but then again, what would you cut?

March 27, 2010 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

Compulsively watchable four-hankie weepie.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Classic to the max, and with Davis, Henried, and those two cigarettes.

June 29, 2005 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

"Hold me-hold me like you did on Naboo" simply holds no weight next to Charlotte Vale's equally melodramatic yet far more poignant doomed romance.

June 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Now, Voyager remains a highly narcotic, swoon-inducing romance in the Bette Davis canon.

June 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Schmaltz sells, then and now.

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

...romantic and romanticized, sudsy and sentimental...a throwback to an earlier age in Hollywood when movies didn't have to be loud or vulgar to sell a point.

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Consummate Warner Bros. melodrama, with Bette excellent as misfit and even better as reborn glamour-puss.

August 16, 2003 Comment
Nick's Flick Picks

Classic Davis soaper with Henreid doing the double cigarette bit.

August 14, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Audience Reviews for Now, Voyager

Max Steiner's haunting score swells like a tidal current throughout this, the grand mal weeper to end all weepers. A young woman struggles valiantly against the overprotective will of her indomitable rock of a mother, herself made hard by life, to forge a life and love free of restraint. Paul Henried is

September 16, 2011
moonrivers

Super Reviewer

An interesting story for a drama, but I'm not very fond of this movie for some reason, I don't know why I don't like it, it's not a bad movie, it's actually pretty good. Maybe if there was a different cast?

September 5, 2010
ajv2688

Super Reviewer

    1. Charlotte Vale: Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
    – Submitted by Tyler C (10 months ago)

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