117 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Irving Rapper
Starring Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper
Playing as part of Academy Cinemas' CINEMA OF SOLITUDE festival June 18th - July 9th.
'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. On board, 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 woman’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.
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Playing as part of Academy Cinemas' CINEMA OF SOLITUDE festival June 18th - July 9th.
'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. On board, 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 woman’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.