Now, Voyager

In 1942, Bette Davis was Warner Brothers’ biggest star. She’d attained this status not through conventional beauty, but through her talent, hard work, and incredible dramatic range. Her filmography up to that time is basically a list of classics. And now at the height of her career, having already won two Best Actress Oscars, and four other nominations, she starred in one of the great romantic films of the era: Now, Voyager. She plays Charlotte Vale, a neurotic, repressed young woman, who lives with her mean, brutally dominating mother, played by Gladys Cooper, and is almost suffocating with loneliness. Painfully shy…