The young girl reminds Charlotte of herself as a child - unwanted, unloved and lonely - and, forgetting about her own problems, Charlotte decides to help Tina getting better. When her mother dies after a quarrel, Charlotte fears she may have another breakdown and goes back to the sanitarium where she meets Jerry's daughter. Time passes and she gets engaged, but a fortuitous encounter with Jerry rekindles the flame. Once back home Charlotte resists her mother's attempts at destroying her again, also thanks to Jerry's memory. Jerry's marriage is in crisis: his wife is jealous and doesn't want him to be an architect, a profession that makes him genuinely happy, besides, she does not love their daughter Christine, affectionately called by his father simply Tina.Ĭharlotte and Jerry fall in love, but they decide not to see each other at the end of the cruise. On the ship she meets Jeremiah Duvaux Durrance (Paul Henreid), a married man travelling with his friends Deb and Frank. After a few months away from her mother, Charlotte is completely transformed and, rather than returning home she goes on a long cruise. Jaquith (C laude Rains), who arranges for her a period of time in his sanitarium.
In the film Bette Davis is Charlotte Vale an unattractive spinster living in Boston with her tyrannical mother.īorn to her late in life, Charlotte was an unwanted child: her mother has been verbally and emotionally abusing her throughout her life, almost taking her own revenge upon Charlotte for having been obliged by social conventions to have a late child.Ĭharlotte lives like a silent recluse, hiding in her room to carve intricate ivory boxes, a hobby that proves she is highly skilled, yet she lacks self-confidence and self-esteem.įearing she may be having a nervous breakdown, her sister- in-law Lisa introduces her to psychiatrist Dr. The film, based on the eponymous 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, takes its title from the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want", that states "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted / Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." Yet the same theme can be explored on the big screen, in films such as 1942 American drama "Now, Voyager", directed by Irving Rapper and starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains. We recently looked at character transformations via costumes in operas.
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