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Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty .
Paul Henreid (January 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) [1] was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best remembered for several film roles during the Second World War, including Capt. Karl Marsen in Night Train to Munich (1940), Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942) and Jerry Durrance in Now, Voyager (1942).
Janis Mae Wilson (February 9, 1930 – November 17, 2003) was an American child actress of the 1940s. She is probably best known for her roles in Now, Voyager and Watch on the Rhine opposite Bette Davis as well as for the films The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and Snafu.
Apr. 15—During the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) led three expeditions to the polar region. His adventurous life was ...
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He would go on to direct her in four more films, Now, Voyager (1942) - selected, in 2007, for preservation in the United States National Film Registry - , The Corn Is Green (1945), Deception (1946), and Another Man's Poison (1952). Rapper's film One Foot in Heaven (1941) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
-Now, Voyager has a recurring motif that parallels a theme in Adrienne's works. She touches upon the motif "never was born". A major part of A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White is the difference between life and death. Many characters deal with suicidal thoughts and actions, as well as the loss of loved ones and children.
Following her leading role in Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942), director Edward Dmytryk, soon cast her in RKO's World War II anti-Nazism film Hitler's Children (1943). The film was a commercial and critical success, becoming one of the studio's highest-grossing films of the year, and one of the highest-grossing for both RKO and 1943.