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www.filmcritic.com - : It's saying something that despite having Bette Davis in the leading role, three Oscar nominations, and one win, Now, Voyager is nonetheless best known for a single scene in which Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes and hands one to Davis. more...
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3/5
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www.upcomingdiscs.com - : Bette Davis is Charlotte Vale. Charlotte is, thanks to the brutal tyranny of her mother, a repressed, ugly duckling spinster. Then psychiatrist Claude Rains steps in, and she transforms completely. Her rebirth is completed on an ocean cruise when she falls in love with the unhappily married Paul Henreid. What follows is a story of romantic sacrifice and the triumph of the human spirit. Described, the plot sounds like total cornball. In execution, it is irresistible. more...
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3/5
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www.threemoviebuffs.com - : Now, Voyager is my favorite Bette Davis movie. In it she plays Charlotte Vale of the Boston Vales a very wealthy and powerful bastion of New England society. As the movie opens Charlotte is having a nervous breakdown brought on mostly by her overbearing and domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). Charlotte is the epitome of the spinster aunt. She wears dowdy dresses, sensible shoes, and unflattering eyeglasses and has thick eyebrows and an old maid hairstyle. She also exists completely under her mother’s thumb. more...
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