Now, Voyager
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.
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1971 featuring actor Bette Davis
- Interview with actor Paul Henreid from 1980
- New selected-scene commentary on the film’s score by scholar Jeff Smith
- New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme on the making of the film
- New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen
- Two radio adaptations from 1943 and 1946
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: An essay by scholar Patricia White and a 1937 reflection on acting by Davis
New cover by Sam Hadley
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1971 featuring actor Bette Davis
- Interview with actor Paul Henreid from 1980
- New selected-scene commentary on the film’s score by scholar Jeff Smith
- New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme on the making of the film
- New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen
- Two radio adaptations from 1943 and 1946
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: An essay by scholar Patricia White and a 1937 reflection on acting by Davis
New cover by Sam Hadley
Cast
- Bette Davis
- Charlotte Vale
- Paul Henreid
- Jerry Durrance
- Claude Rains
- Dr. Jaquith
- Gladys Cooper
- Mrs. Henry Vale
- Bonita Granville
- June Vale
- Ilka Chase
- Lisa Vale
- Janis Wilson
- Tina Durrance
Credits
- Director
- Irving Rapper
- Screenplay by
- Casey Robinson
- From the novel by
- Olive Higgins Prouty
- Produced by
- Hal B. Wallis
- Music by
- Max Steiner
- Director of photography
- Sol Polito
- Gowns by
- Orry-Kelly
- Makeup artist
- Perc Westmore
