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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419810862
Format: Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1419810863
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 3650
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A tender love story a taut psychological drama an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual transformation. Now Voyager is all three as well as a Bette Davis career milestone resulting in her sixth Best Actress Oscar nomination. She magically plays Charlotte Vale a spinster who defies her domineering mother (fellow Oscar nominee Gladys Cooper) to discover love heartbreak and eventual contentment. More magic is generated by a top-notch ensemble Max Steiner?s Academy Award-winning score and an improvised moment by Paul Henreid that became an instant classic: he lights two cigarettes at once and hands one to Davis. For the ultimate in romantic melodrama it's Now Voyager now then and forever.Running Time: 117 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569675391
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Now, Voyager
This is a 3-box of Kleenex film. Wonderfully acted by the ever changing Bette Davis, the music score by Max Steiner has great melodies. Even Black and White cannot affect the interesting plot.
Rating: - Now Voyager
If you are a fan of Bette Davis, this is the one for you (excellent movie)
Rating: - Magnificent Warner Brothers' Trio
Bette Davis captivates the lead in this, her best film. With one of the most versatile and seasoned actors, Claude Rains, one wonders who the true love match in the background story is between. Doubtless, Paul Henreid is well paired with Davis as a traveling companion and lover. This trio will meet on sets over and again because of the ways they unite to ingite the silver screen. The Warners had it made with these three great talents as part of their core acting team. We seem here to agree that "Now, ... Read More
Rating:  - What could be better...
...than Bette Davis chain smoking her way through life, and still looking glamorous?
...than her mother telling the psychologist that her daughter is no sicker than, "a moulting canary?
...than Claude Rains as the owl-eyed psychologist saying, "A mother's rights - twaddle?"
This is an epic picture, completely unbelievable (let's flash back to when she was 16 and in braids!) and completely Warner Brothers (the stock footage of South America...) Ridiculous coincidences, patronizing ... Read More
Rating: - The Untold Want
Walt Whitman wrote, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." This short poem serves as the theme of both the film and its star's continual battles with Hollywood for self-determination.
Davis is brilliant as the brow-beaten Charlotte, used by her twisted, domineering mother and deprived of her own identity. Ultimately, she suffers a breakdown and discovers her own inner strength due to the kindness of the doctor and staff of a sanatorium. ... Read More
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