#Now Voyager

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I'll look for you around every corner.

BETTE DAVIS & PAUL HENREID as Charlotte Vale and Jeremiah "Jerry" Durrance in NOW, VOYAGER (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

[rhera]

[ Know, then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends.

No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world: ... ] — The Minister's Black Veil

Senso (1954) Inglourious Basterds (2009) Double Indemnity (1944) Anna Karenina (2012) Moulin Rouge! (2001) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Tess (1979) Ludwig (1973) Now, Voyager (1942) Chinatown (1974)

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NOW, VOYAGER (1942), dir. Irving Rapper

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Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

[womansfilm]

Now, Voyager (1942) / Aliens (1986)

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Paul Henreid and Bette Davis in Now Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

[davisbette]

Please take back what you said.

BETTE DAVIS and PAUL HENREID in NOW VOYAGER (1942) — dir. Irving Rapper

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Now Voyager (1942)

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Bette Davis

Now, Voyager 1942

Gown by Orry-Kelly

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Bette Davis on the set of Now, Voyager (1942).

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I’m me so of course I haven’t stopped wondering why they chose to have Armand mention Now, Voyager (1942) of all movies bc as we know, these writers are a very intentional bunch. It’s funny bc I think the film almost reads as what Louis, Claudia, and Armand could’ve had if Armand wasn’t so unwilling to leave his pre-existing structures behind.

Bette Davis’s character is initially very quiet, neurotic, meek, shaped that way by her relationship with her controlling and emotionally and verbally abusive mother. It’s not until she begins traveling on her own that she’s able to escape this dynamic and start building a new identity for herself. She also ends up falling in a love with a married man whose wife is similarly controlling and cruel.

She even eventually forms a close bond with his daughter, whom she sees herself in:

The title of the film is taken from Walt Whitman’s poem “The Untold Want:”

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Perhaps the most Armand moment of the film, to me, is when Jerry, the love interest played by Claude Rains, passes Charlotte/Bette a cigarette, lights it, and says: “I wish I understood you.”

After he has left the table, Charlotte remarks to herself: “He wishes he understood me.” And finds herself looking at her reflection in the nearby window. “He wishes,” she says.

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NOW, VOYAGER (1942)

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On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issues a presidential proclamation that officially established the first national #MothersDay holiday to celebrate America’s mothers.

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Now, Voyager (1942)

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The invincible Bette Davis

Now, Voyager (1942)

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Stay cozy.

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Clarulitas Bette Davis in "Now Voyager" (1942) Digital painting 2024