Now, Voyager (1942)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Irving Rapper

Escritores:

Casey Robinson (screenplay)
Olive Higgins Prouty (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 octubre 1942 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Today Her Greatest! For a woman there's always an excuse . . .

Plot:

Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.

Plot Keywords:

Spinster | Cruise | Heart Attack | Love Affair | Domineering Mother

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Bette Davis Transforms into a Raving Beauty

Reparto

Bette Davis	...	Charlotte Vale
Paul Henreid	...	Jerry Durrance
Claude Rains	...	Dr. Jaquith
Gladys Cooper	...	Mrs. Henry Windle Vale
Bonita Granville	...	June Vale
John Loder	...	Elliot Livingston
Ilka Chase	...	Lisa Vale
Lee Patrick	...	'Deb' McIntyre
Franklin Pangborn	...	Mr. Thompson
Katharine Alexander	...	Miss Trask (as Katherine Alexander)
James Rennie	...	Frank McIntyre
Mary Wickes	...	Nurse Dora Pickford

También conocida como:

La extraña pasajera (Spain) [es]

Duración:

117 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Portugués

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | UK:PG | Canada:PG (video rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | South Korea:15 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #8341) | Germany:o.Al.

Locaciones de Filmación:

6621 Whitley Terrace, Whitley Heights, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

The screenplay is a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel, except that in the book Charlotte takes a Mediterranean cruise, not a South American one.

Errores:

Continuidad: Later in the movie, Jaquith puts his hands in his pockets, then his arms are folded, then back to pockets.

Citas:

Charlotte Vale: Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Counterfeit Contessa (1994) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique), 1st Movement

Bette Davis Transforms into a Raving Beauty

"Now, Voyager" is arguably the best of all motion pictures by Bette Davis. As Charlotte Vale, a rich Bostonian smothered by a mother who had her late in life, Davis plays a frumpy, low-esteemed, near recluse of a woman. That is, until her cousin intervenes by bringing a psychiatrist into Miss Vale's life.

Miss Vale's cousin and shrink conspire to bring her out of the steel shell her domineering mother has encased her within. Their idea is to send her on a cruise with the doctor's advice to learn everything, do everything, engage everyone. The results are a remarkable transformation of a woman who believed she was an 'ugly duckling' into Miss Bette Davis as a sizzling hot beauty like she never was before or after in any other film.

How Miss Davis didn't view herself as or use her beauty to create her success as an actress is what "Now, Voyager," proves is most remarkable about her 66 year long acting career. If she had wanted to be a "bombshell," she could have, two snaps up. Davis didn't want to be a "movie star," or "glamor girl." She wanted to be a great actor and achieved her life's goal. Not only did she make her career using acting skill and shrewd business finesse, Bette Davis also made quite a few other people's acting careers work well for them by taking a back seat in films with weak scripts. Thus, as co-actors they could collaborate to make out of an average screenplay a screen hit and a new acting star. Davis was so unselfish an actor that she was in the acting business to benefit the art. That's why she's my favorite actor of all time: she was so self-assured as an actor in a man's world (in the 20th century), that her ego didn't get in the way of making truly great movies with co-actors with whom she worked with as a team player. "Now, Voyage," is one such film. Clearly, she steals the show, but she takes Paul Heinrick right next to her, conjoined at the hip. What a delight it must have been to work with a true artist who was a great expert at her craft.

Bogie & Bergman in "Casablanca," don't have one thing over Davis & Heinrick in "Now, Voyager," when it comes to the most intense, well acted, extremely well scripted romantic drama that has it all. Davis is glamorous beyond compare and Heinrick is a smooth, sensuous, suitor.

This is my favorite of all of her motion pictures (at least I believe I have seen them all). How anyone could say that Bette Davis wasn't a raving beauty after they saw her in this film is beyond me. Not only does "Jerry" fall madly in love with "Charlotte," so does the audience.

There's much more to this great story, but I'm not telling! Buy the DVD.