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Movie Reviews of Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
Movie Review: I'd make a good Head Waitress in a Restaurant
Summary: 5 Stars
You can try, but you will not find a better "woman's soaper" from the Golden Age of film than Irving Rapper's 1942 adaptation of the best-selling novel by the then popular authoress, Mrs. Olive Higgins Prouty than "Now, Voyager". If you recall, Bette Davis sued her home studio, Warner Bros. for not coming through with roles worthy of the actress' attributes. Technically a loser in court, Davis did in theory triumph over Jack Warner and co. by being given a plethora of roles that allowed the saucer-eyed siren with the hip-sway swagger to excel and ignite. And excel, she did. Ignite? All the time. Her "transformation" turn as Bostonian Charlotte Vale remains one of the taller "American Beauties" in the late actress' garden of chracterizations. Unlike Bette's expert turn, "Voyager" is studded with not un-pleasant cliche's and is a tapestry of beautiful moments so contrived yet so towering in craft that any questionable filmaking here is quickly forgotten. It's simple message of transformation from Mother's prison of physical unattractiveness to the promise of Jerry Durrance-ecstacy fullfilled to inner true fullfillment through unselfish sacrifice is to good to be believed yet Davis and company (deftly backed by such old stalwarts as Gladys Cooper, Claude Rains, Ilka Chase, Bonita Granville, Mary Wickes and Lee Patrick)are so committed, so involved with eachother and the morality of the show that one cannot help but to admire the outcome of such "thick" acting. You may, as I did, find Paul Heinreid a bit slug-paced in the quieter moments and ravingly urgent in his breathier scenes but manages to comes back full force by simply lighting two cigarettes orally at once and mole away a niche in filmdom's lore that is virtually unrivaled today. The cigarette lighting and musical Max Steiner's music seem to be more celebrated than Christmas. Janis Wilson, wonderfully powerful in a shouting, growling sort of way in "The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers" is a drag as "Tina" the greasy, nasal pre-teen daughter who snags Davis' "Charlotte" up like a fish on the line. Filthy Girl-Nerd on battery acid comes to my mind. However, see "Voyager" for the Steiner lilt and marvel at Bette's valiant attempt to live a sex-less life in Orry-Kelly finery amid fake back-drop moonlit skies and have a ball!Movie Review: THE UGLY DUCKING, WHO BECAME A BEAUTIFUL SWAN!
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this movie quite by accident on TV, and I fell in love with it! I had to buy it, and have a copy of my very own! It is one of the most tender, and profound, heartrending love storys, that I have ever seen! Eventhough, the movie was in black and white, I didn't care, It was outstanding!
This movie is about a woman named Charlotte, who was a overweight ugly ducking, who became a beautiful woman, in spite of the fact, that Charlotte had a very overbearing, hateful mother.
A kind doctor helped Charlotte with her sadness, and Charlotte ended up going on a vacation, on a cruise ship, there Charlotte met and fell in love with a very handsome man named Jerry, but Jerry was a married man, but he was still, so in love with Charlotte! And Charlotte was so in love with him, she was in love for the first time in her life!
(Betty Davis) who played Charlotte, and (Paul Henreid) who played Jerry, was awesome!I loved the chemisty between them, you could almost feel the overpowering love, that they felt for each other in this movie!
One of my favorite scenes is when Jerry tells Charlotte, "If only I was free, there would be only one thing that I would want to do, and that would be to prove that you are not immune to happiness!" I'd show you, that you deserve to be loved!" And I liked the way Jerry lit two cigarettes, at the same time!
I loved the beautiful, soul stirring music of Max Steiner! Wow! I LOVED the scene at the end of the movie where Jerry tells Charlotte, after they talked, to let's have a cigarette on it, and then the way Jerry lit two cigarettes, and looked at Charlotte, with his beautiful self! Oh! My! For some reason to me, that was one of the most sexy, profound, loving, romantic moments in a movie that I have ever seen, when Jerry and Charlotte was smoking they looked like they were actually speaking to each other, and yet for that brief moment they did not speak no words; you could feel and see all this intense emotion, and love! I highly recommend this movie! Simply Awesome! They don't make movies like this anymore, Oh, how I wished that they did!
Movie Review: One of the Greatest Films Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished watching this film and am so awe-struck that I can barely think. I'm so amazed at what I've seen. I've only watched Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, so I expected her to... faulter in a more romantic film. But I'm beyond impressed. Bette Davis has to be the most brilliant, versatile actress I have ever seen.
The story focuses on Charlotte, an ugly duckling under her mother's care, turned beautiful swan after a nervous breakdown and meeting with a doctor whom she confides in and finds freedom. Instead of returning home, Charlotte takes a cruise and meets, as well as falls in love with, a married man named Jerry, who has a daughter named Tina who lives a life not unlike Charlotte's own.
Although the film isn't predictable, you do have an idea as to what will happen just looking at the plot. However, this film is one of the few that gripped my attention so thoroughly that I was left feeling so much for the characters that I could barely seperate myself from them. The acting is so brilliant, not just by Davis, but all around. Another great thing about this film is that it has different layers of emotional content. Ranging from sadness to love, from seriousness to purely comic, this film has a range unrivaled by any other film I have seen.
Whether you're a movie enthusiast, or are just looking for something different to watch, Now, Voyager is likely to be one of the greatest films you could ever chance seeing.
Movie Review: From ugly duckling to swan
Summary: 5 Stars
Bette Davis plays a shy, timid woman named Charlotte Vale who is controlled by her aging mother, played by Gladys Cooper. Charlotte's mother has controlled all of her life and never forgets to mention to her that she has control of her. One day a doctor comes to visit and witnesses Charlotte having a mental breakdown and sends her to his hospital. While there the doctor (played by Claude Rains) helps Charlotte change her hair, pluck her eyebrows, wear flattering clothes, and helps to bring her out of her shell.
Later on Charlotte decides to take a cruise where she meets a married man named Jerry, played by Paul Henreid. Jerry is stuck in a unhappy marriage and Charlotte knows what she has gotten herself into when she decides to have the affair of sorts.
When the cruise is over, Charlotte returns to Boston, and her family is shocked to see the change in her. One day Charlotte and her mother get into a heated argument and the mother dies. Charlotte is faced with guilt and decides to return to the hospital. At the hospital she meets a twelve-year-old girl named, Tina who turns out to be Jerry's daughter. Charlotte becomes Tina's official nurse, and brings Tina back to Boston with her. One day Jerry turns up at Charlotte's door to see his daughter, and ends up alone with Charlotte in the library.
I'm not going to tell what happens in the library, but I'll end it with Charlotte's last words to Jerry, "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
~~~~Kat
Movie Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I just introduced myself to Bette Davis with this film in an effort to learn about movies before 1960.
Brilliant: a women controlled completely by her mother has a break down and then goes on a cruise. She meets a man who is married and has a daughter. They fall in love but don't pursue the relationship. Later in the film she ends up caring for his child and though they could act on their romance, they decide to sublimate it in favor of centering their love for the child.
What struck me here is how different the times were: if this were to happen, say, in 1960 or after, there would be almost no question of the two getting married. But this was 1942. Now Voyager is really about people adhering to strict moral and social codes back when these were sacred. Their considerations of their needs as individuals were secondary.
You see this in a million ways: there is very nuanced sexual energy here, such as when the couple shares cigarettes, but it is all deep in subtext. Bette Davis' character refuses to leave her mother-and feels guilty when she dies, despite the mothers horrible treatment of her. Impulses are repressed, barley acknowledged, never mind acted on
This type of theme threads back through drama: Romeo and Juliet, Age Of Innocence, stories where people are completely bound by expectations you would never consider today. Fascinating