You guys dont hate me but this was best looking I ever seen Bette in movie. The clothes so ahead of its time. That hairdo really suited her. Paul's swagger lighting both their cigarettes makes me wont to shoot out of a cannon.
When I was 18, I pulled that "light 2 cigarettes, give her one" move on a girl at a party. That was the second time I ever had sex --- first time in a car.
To me this film is simply unforgettable, Bette and Paul Iconic script music settings unbeatable I always get goosebumps watching this its such a romantic weepy, tissues at the ready boxes of them lol lol thanks for sharing.....
Stunning! And all in such good taste. Imagine watching two great artists playing the parts of two exceptionally compassionate and giving characters! You won't see anything like Bette Davis and Paul Henreid now, and more's the pity for it.
What a shallow person! Now that I am older and wiser. I see that Bette Davis was an obsessed BITCH! I take her daughter's side! I don't think she knew what a charity was or an underdog. She had it easy! That is the irony of her BULLSHIT saying, "I did it the hard way!" Fuck You Bette! YOU FOOL! You were WEAK! You don't fool me!
One of the many things I love about this film is that it isn't afraid to wear it's emotion right on its sleeve-besides the great acting, music, photography (the new prints are so clear it's hard to believe it's an older film), direction, it's just so great on so many levels - and by the way, that gargoyle of a mother, Gladys Cooper was the 1st lady of the British Theater and was from all accounts the sweetest person with an hysterical sense of humour-just shows how great she was-Bette loved her.
Bette was so pretty and cute when young, but started to look old by her early 40s. Smoking several packs of cigarettes a day for decades will do that.
The sad thing is, that by the end of the film, there was not reason for them NOT to get together. Jerry was free of his marriage and Charlotte was independent and wealthy. I still can;t understand why they didn't marry - except, of course, we'd have lost this great renunciation scene.
Also, what excellent cigarette work by Davis and Heinreid. I suppose if it were remade today, the cigs would have to be repolaced with carrots or something.
Have lost count of the times I have seen this film and this scene is just electric. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by our thoughts and feelings, but we have a choice whether to act upon them or not. Parting is such sweet sorrow but always the love remains. Wonderful film.
The musical score for the movie is just incredibly enchanting and beautiful, I must konw, what is the name of the score? I'd love to download it. I would deeply appreciate anyone who'll tell me and find out, thank you :)
@moonlightorchid99 i think i just typed in Now, Voyager into itunes and i was able to download a violin version by ithzak perlman. it really is beautiful.
To quote a tired cliche....."They just don't make em like this anymore"...
One of the most famous love scenes in cinema history , Bette was so beautiful and talented , she played ingenue just as great as hard knock characters , the lead in this movie -Charlotte- was a favorite of mine as well as -Leslie -in Dark Victory , BRAVO Bette for these two brilliant performances .........
One of these days I'm going to get a double breasted suit complete with the hanky and silk tie but I don't have anywhere to wear it. This is California, you can wear anything to any event and there will be at least one other person dressed exactly like you except for double breasted suit, I'm afraid.
This is a good scene, but, to me the most (I guess you could call it) dramatic scene is the one when we see her for the first time after she's come out of the sanatorium as she exits the ship. How we first see her beautiful shoes, her beautiful legs and then we see her with her piled up under that beautiful hat. She doesn't even have to say a word. That scene takes your breath away.
The musical ending to this film must be the ultimate classic Hollywood ending and I can't get enough of it. I once was in a film museum and I kept playing the ending until Í was 'forcedly removed' !
I love this movie! I watched it the other day. I love Bette Ive been watching her movies all week. She has such a powerful presence on screen that I just cant get enough of it. She put such emotion into her performances that it was emotional at times. I adore Bette <3 <3
If this isn't a good film then I don't know what is.
The first time I watched this film I was 13 years old, I was fascinated by such talent and emotion, meaning that a film can now days not provide, I am now 14 and can say with every ounce of sense I have in my mind, This is one of the most enduring films of motion picture history!
Miss Bette Davis Queen of the Warner Bros Lot was not the first choice...Jack Warner wanted the sublime Irene Dunne. Lucky are we that battling Bette got his part! Movie magic.
Love Bette Davis, always will. to make a cig.look beautiful, OMG she could even do this. :-)))) LOVE you Bette, know you are feeling all the LOVE we still have for yuo great lady. She put her soul right out there. :-) Peace and Love to all, and to the POSTER THANKYOU FOR POSTING THIS tid-bit of a gem. :-)
I recently re watched this movie and I loved it when I first saw it as a little girl living under a woman similar to the character played by the woman who plays Bette Davis' mother. I was spellbound (yes, I know that's the name of another movie, too. ) I couldn't believe someone was speaking about children's rights. I cried then and I cried recently after seeing it after so many decades. They don't make movies like this anymore. Thanks for posting it.
@tristansladyhawk I could not agree with you more about your description of this clip. I normally never cry in movies, but in this scene... I SOBBED. Fantastic, fantastic movie, it's too bad talent like this isn't as predominant in films today.
like casablanca this is one of those movies, even if i get a brief glimps while channel surfing, i have to watch to it's conclusion. in fact. i'm watching it now on wgbh here in boston.
the reason i mention boston, is because warners recreated not only some of boston's landscape, but they perfectly recreated back bay station (it's now gone & a new station stands in it's place). as a college student i remember going down to the platform to take the train home, it was a wonderful old building
The beauty of this film is that its about renunciation: giving up something. Today we are encouraged to "go for it", have it all, tell it all, make sure our needs are met, no matter what. There is a beauty and mystery in silence and sacrifice. However old-fashioned
@zzheavensdoor I love your film analysis, and it is true. Our post modern/atomic culture has embraced the self as all powerful, and we are loosing the essence of what it means to be human and feeling.
As for the words, "Don't let's ask...". It is evidently a phrase that has gone out of fashion over the years. By coincidence, I am reading an Agatha Christie novel written in 1946, 4 years after the movie Now Voyager was made, and the following sentence appears in the book, "Well, don't let's waste time on Edward!" So there was no mistake with that usage in the movie. It is just a term that has for some reason slowly vanished.
Can someone explain the dialogue for me...although this is a perfect and supremely romantic ending, I'm confused by what Bette says at the end "Oh Jerry, don't lets ask for the moon, we have the stars." I understand the comparison between the moon and stars, but I'm flummoxed by the "don't lets ask" phrase....anyone care to enlighten me?
The most simple is: Let's not be romantic fools, in flux like the moon, let's focus on the stable features--the unquestioned relationships we already share, namely with Tina (Jerry gave strength to BD before her self discovery but is too weak to leave his dum dum wife), etc.
I see, thanks....one thing however, grammatically speaking, that sentence (don't let's ask for the moon...) doesn't make sense, why would Casey Robinson, who wrote the screenplay, include it? Sentimental effect possibly?? Thanks for the insight!
It does make sense, meaning "Do not let us ask for the moon..."; "let's" is not commonly used in that type of context any more, but it does make sense. They are appealing to themselves for the restriction.
They called her sob sister Bette because she could make them all cry. One night, my mother, a hard, cynical cookie was channel surfing and we came upon Bette in the final moments of "Dark Victory" and she was like, "I don't wanna see this-" but kept it on and by the end she was in tears saying, "Goddammit, the bitch made me cry!! She always does that!!" and Bette does it well!!
This is the original "Extreme Makeover" show. Bette Davis' transformation from unibrowed klutz to svelte socialite is glorious to watch. Davis never looked this beautiful before or after. I don't think the cigarette thing has aged well, though. It's almost comical by the time the last smoking duet is performed. (Carol Burnett did a hilarious parody of this movie back in the 1960s or 70s.)
I liked about the first 2/3 of this movie. then she gets all creepy and obsessive over his daughter and it just completely lost me. maybe it's just part of the film that didn't age so well.
i watched this movie in a film class, and sadly, i think i was the only one who appreciated it, lol. During discussion everyone just commented about how immoral the movie was since the French guy (forgot his name) was cheating on his wife the whole time. =(
It gave me chills. So beautiful. Aw, when he lit both cigarettes, that was just too much.
The soaring musical scores from this era add so deeply to the emotions of the films. We don't have ridiculously epic scores any longer. I want them back!
Oh, this clip is only a minute long and I want to cry. Beautiful movie if there ever was one. But then, nearly everything Bette Davis worked in turned out well.
nodoby, but absolutely nobody is able to drag on a cigarette like our Bette,sheer perfection.. such an evocative and by now a nostalgic film of which there is no equal in today's productions --superb !!!
I love that "Jerry don't let's ask for the moon" line. I sometime just say it out loud to myself sometimes. geniaaaaaaaaa a million of stars..... un beso...
my top 10 list always gets bigger. But this one film has always been on it. Perhaps Bette"s one great movie., but then there was the Little Foxes, ect ect ...God Bless Bette
Sadly we can't make them like this anymore...I can't even think of anyone in Hollywood today that could play these 2 parts....The talent just isn't there...
Sadly but true. Talent and Screen Presence isn't made like these any more. I wished I live during that particular time - life seemed to have been so different and common courtesy was a normalcy.
MY mother was a tears at her film she and i loved to watch her she was a very pretty lady who could act. that yell,voice,I can never forget her. i miss those movies.wow love is strong get her movie.
My Mother (a teen at the time) was forever in love with Paul Henried after this--I believe she said she crawled out of the theater she was crying so much!
I adore this movie. This is my favorite part. I love that "Jerry don't let's ask for the moon" line. I sometime just say it out loud to myself sometimes.
That's incredible! Also, ques for whoever: What is the lighting of the two cigareets supposed to symbolize? I'm trying to figure it out for a paper I'm writing on this movie and I just want a bunch of diff opinions.
In the "oldendays" men almost always lit cigareetes at the same time, one for the woman, and one for themselves, it hapens in Casablanca with Bogart and Ingrid, just old fashioned chilvalry, but its kinda gone out of style,Lung cancer will do that...
Actually, I could be wrong but supposedly Paul Heinred improvised the lighting of the cigarrettes. I'm sure that I read that somewhere - I dont remember that happening in Casablanca but I could be wrong.
That's what I've heard also, that he improvised it in the first cigarette scene in this movie on the balcony late at night. It changed the way Americans smoke cigarettes
yes, I seem to recall watching a documentary where some Hollywood old-timer told how PH was supposed to light two cigarettes and after numerous takes he decided this was the most efficient, graceful way to do so. And from it, so much mimicry and inspiration. it's a very sexy and intimate way to light up.
Bette Davis is magnficent in this movie. Ironically, Irene Dunne was supposed to star but Bette Queen of The Warner Lot went to Jack Warner and pleaded for this role which turned out to be one of her greatest possibly her greatest!
This scene, shot on a stage at Warners, is more romantic and evocative than anything these new Directors try to do with the special effects, and all the jazz they use today.
Quietly moving, this scene is movie magic with a great star- Bette Davis- at her Peak.
I am truly sorry for the many people alive today who can't appreciate the older black-and-white films. Can you imagine this film with it's haunting music appearing to be as intimate and touching as it is, if it were made in color? The tear in her eye, the puffs of cigarette smoke, etc., would all be relegated to the background while your eyes focused elsewhere... Now Voyager, like Casablanca, was meant to be in lovely black-and-white.
I loved Now, Voyager. It's [melo]drama, a little bit fairy tale-ish & romance all blended into one movie, in a typical fourties atmosphere. (: Bette Davis is also great in a 'good' role and she & Paul Henreid really have chemistry. Last but not least: these immortal final words.. they are very true: "Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars" (:
The great Davis incomparable in so many movies is greatest here in "Now Voyager". Bette Davis insisted that on her tombstone should be "She Did It the Hard Way" and she did, with a brilliant career noted for always fine work.
Now Voyager is my fave Bette Davis film...a movie milestone. Oh that ending!
hey! check out my bette davis - now, voyager tribute. hope you like it. I dedicated a whole tribute to Now, voyager because I thought it a beautiful film with beautiful acting from bette davis.
I love bette . she was my hero. A strange hero for a man perhaps. But in her movies i saw the world. For as a child i was sick alot . And it was her movies that ketp me going..
I love Bette and watched this movie yesterday. Such a great classic. I don't get why people said she wasn't a classic Hollywood beauty. I think she was beautiful and had the best acting talent ever! - Love, Dawn xx
BETTE DAVIS, the moon, PAUL HENREID, the cig's, the music, the story, it all adds up to one of the BEST movies ever made, I could watch it over and over.......and I do :)
If a guy lit my cigarette like that, I'd go with him anywhere. No idea how or why that works.
Also, 7 people have no taste in men.
mkjmstl1 4 days ago
You guys dont hate me but this was best looking I ever seen Bette in movie. The clothes so ahead of its time. That hairdo really suited her. Paul's swagger lighting both their cigarettes makes me wont to shoot out of a cannon.
cuzitsnecessary 1 week ago
OMG it's Victor Lazzo
howherCHESTwaswon 2 weeks ago
When I was 18, I pulled that "light 2 cigarettes, give her one" move on a girl at a party. That was the second time I ever had sex --- first time in a car.
rubberducky113 3 months ago 2
To me this film is simply unforgettable, Bette and Paul Iconic script music settings unbeatable I always get goosebumps watching this its such a romantic weepy, tissues at the ready boxes of them lol lol thanks for sharing.....
gf1001 3 months ago
so romantic. even though i don't smoke, i still think this is one of the most romantic ( & some how erotic) scene in film history.
azula123321 5 months ago 4
really want a cigarette
fergioo 5 months ago
@fergioo
Yeah, it's so classy. That's why the movies nowadays don't have those scenes anymore.
ichimonjiguy 5 months ago 3
Great acting, great direction, great score, great cinematography, etc.
midiout 5 months ago 3
Stunning! And all in such good taste. Imagine watching two great artists playing the parts of two exceptionally compassionate and giving characters! You won't see anything like Bette Davis and Paul Henreid now, and more's the pity for it.
cenid2011 6 months ago 8
@cenid2011 Some-of-us have-written 'movie-templates' & seek-funding; okay no car-chases, explosions... just romance & boxes-of paper-tissue's.
CashOnTheNail1955 4 months ago
This scene really captures the mood with its timeless energy mixed
with vintage appeal. Bette Davis eyes truly were her well of expression.
Loved the music back ground and all the components of this movie.
globehunter2 6 months ago 2
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What a shallow person! Now that I am older and wiser. I see that Bette Davis was an obsessed BITCH! I take her daughter's side! I don't think she knew what a charity was or an underdog. She had it easy! That is the irony of her BULLSHIT saying, "I did it the hard way!" Fuck You Bette! YOU FOOL! You were WEAK! You don't fool me!
marinello6 7 months ago
really, I am...:D
olencjo1985 7 months ago in playlist MUSIC
Like if you know this from History Boys!
Boxeydude1 7 months ago
One of the many things I love about this film is that it isn't afraid to wear it's emotion right on its sleeve-besides the great acting, music, photography (the new prints are so clear it's hard to believe it's an older film), direction, it's just so great on so many levels - and by the way, that gargoyle of a mother, Gladys Cooper was the 1st lady of the British Theater and was from all accounts the sweetest person with an hysterical sense of humour-just shows how great she was-Bette loved her.
sfden50 7 months ago 2
She totally marries Dr. Jacquith after the film. I have no doubts about that.
MissLizaMay 7 months ago
@MissLizaMay Just as Bette would have liked, as she told Dick Cavett years later.
cranky1chick 6 months ago
This is dreadful! Poor little Tina needs to be removed from that house before all that second-hand smoke kills her!
OceanKingNY 8 months ago
Bette was so pretty and cute when young, but started to look old by her early 40s. Smoking several packs of cigarettes a day for decades will do that.
pauswa1966 8 months ago
The sad thing is, that by the end of the film, there was not reason for them NOT to get together. Jerry was free of his marriage and Charlotte was independent and wealthy. I still can;t understand why they didn't marry - except, of course, we'd have lost this great renunciation scene.
Also, what excellent cigarette work by Davis and Heinreid. I suppose if it were remade today, the cigs would have to be repolaced with carrots or something.
Crumphorn 8 months ago
she's a LADY.
Miasmummy2497 8 months ago
such a sexy scene!!!
AllAboutSEXatYuToob2 9 months ago
Love this movie and especially this scene!
AllAboutSEXatYuToob2 9 months ago
Wasn't this actually Angela Lansbury?
Piccasso30 9 months ago
Damn good movie and I wish that they made them more of them today.
hineni53 9 months ago
i love you tcm
hcwcars1 9 months ago
great great
hcwcars1 9 months ago
Feliz Cumpleaños Mr Davis....
juanbosco31 9 months ago
Have lost count of the times I have seen this film and this scene is just electric. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by our thoughts and feelings, but we have a choice whether to act upon them or not. Parting is such sweet sorrow but always the love remains. Wonderful film.
Thereisonlythemoment 11 months ago
@Thereisonlythemoment I agree...I have to watch it over and OVER .....Thank goodness to TMC!!!
Taharah007 9 months ago
@Thereisonlythemoment very well put.
hineni53 9 months ago
that ritual they have thats so romantic couldnt have been done with anything other then cigarettes...i wish hollywood still used cigarettes like that
katietwotone 11 months ago
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plucsin 1 year ago
Be happy with what you have. Those eyes say everything!!
hineni53 1 year ago
This was an extraordinary film. Bette Davis is my favorite actress. She's just phenomenal. No one can hold a torch to her performances.
chilvari 1 year ago
beautiful and moving scene, my fav is when she first appears with the fierce hat on on the ship, I am a tcm addict
kerry45417 1 year ago 6
God i LOVE this movie,especially this scene!
TearJERKERSatYT 1 year ago
just the way they look at each other after bette takes one of the cigarettes...it's like they're makin love.
christentze 1 year ago 4
i love the score from this film and how Paul lights two cigs.
christentze 1 year ago
The musical score for the movie is just incredibly enchanting and beautiful, I must konw, what is the name of the score? I'd love to download it. I would deeply appreciate anyone who'll tell me and find out, thank you :)
moonlightorchid99 1 year ago
@moonlightorchid99 i think i just typed in Now, Voyager into itunes and i was able to download a violin version by ithzak perlman. it really is beautiful.
christentze 1 year ago
@christentze thank you so much for the advice and sharing your knowledge with me :) I appreciate the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out
moonlightorchid99 1 year ago
Easily one of the great last lines in all film history!!
MrDarrellmoo 1 year ago
To quote a tired cliche....."They just don't make em like this anymore"...
One of the most famous love scenes in cinema history , Bette was so beautiful and talented , she played ingenue just as great as hard knock characters , the lead in this movie -Charlotte- was a favorite of mine as well as -Leslie -in Dark Victory , BRAVO Bette for these two brilliant performances .........
hlywdplayer 1 year ago
One of these days I'm going to get a double breasted suit complete with the hanky and silk tie but I don't have anywhere to wear it. This is California, you can wear anything to any event and there will be at least one other person dressed exactly like you except for double breasted suit, I'm afraid.
someonespadre 1 year ago
This is a good scene, but, to me the most (I guess you could call it) dramatic scene is the one when we see her for the first time after she's come out of the sanatorium as she exits the ship. How we first see her beautiful shoes, her beautiful legs and then we see her with her piled up under that beautiful hat. She doesn't even have to say a word. That scene takes your breath away.
hjb103055 1 year ago 2
Great movie, great music. The kind you want to watch on a cold rainy day with a hot cup of tea on your hands as you lay comfortably on the couch.
Khantikone123 1 year ago
The musical ending to this film must be the ultimate classic Hollywood ending and I can't get enough of it. I once was in a film museum and I kept playing the ending until Í was 'forcedly removed' !
MusicJunky3 1 year ago 3
I love this movie! I watched it the other day. I love Bette Ive been watching her movies all week. She has such a powerful presence on screen that I just cant get enough of it. She put such emotion into her performances that it was emotional at times. I adore Bette <3 <3
xtinaandravenfan 1 year ago
YES!! I'm getting teary-eyed! A GREAT FILM!!!
BronxBornBroad 1 year ago
If this isn't a good film then I don't know what is.
The first time I watched this film I was 13 years old, I was fascinated by such talent and emotion, meaning that a film can now days not provide, I am now 14 and can say with every ounce of sense I have in my mind, This is one of the most enduring films of motion picture history!
FuelledByForties 1 year ago 2
despite the fact that i'm a fella, this scene puts tears in my eyes. perfectly composed; a passionate scene with music that puts my heart in my mouth
louissimmonds 1 year ago
Miss Bette Davis Queen of the Warner Bros Lot was not the first choice...Jack Warner wanted the sublime Irene Dunne. Lucky are we that battling Bette got his part! Movie magic.
Bravo Bette, and Henried.
ToughXArmy69 1 year ago
Fabulous!...fags, kebabs, and rebellion!
saccoivanzetti 1 year ago
I love that passionate cigarette gesture Paul Henried does. I've been joking around lately with it and tell my friends that I saw it in an old movie.
andeaver1937 1 year ago
the dialogue is so beautiful.
shereentmq 1 year ago
Love Bette Davis, always will. to make a cig.look beautiful, OMG she could even do this. :-)))) LOVE you Bette, know you are feeling all the LOVE we still have for yuo great lady. She put her soul right out there. :-) Peace and Love to all, and to the POSTER THANKYOU FOR POSTING THIS tid-bit of a gem. :-)
nancyl2 1 year ago
There's more smoking in this movie than any other I've ever seen, except maybe All About Eve.
ddart 1 year ago
I recently re watched this movie and I loved it when I first saw it as a little girl living under a woman similar to the character played by the woman who plays Bette Davis' mother. I was spellbound (yes, I know that's the name of another movie, too. ) I couldn't believe someone was speaking about children's rights. I cried then and I cried recently after seeing it after so many decades. They don't make movies like this anymore. Thanks for posting it.
coxmosia1 1 year ago
It really is wonderful, isn't it?
mymagnoliatree 1 year ago
Bette Davis was the biggest presence on the screen of all time. No one else compares.
wisdaniel 1 year ago
so wonderful!
profMike54 1 year ago
This movie is the reason I started smoking...
expandonthat 1 year ago
@tristansladyhawk I could not agree with you more about your description of this clip. I normally never cry in movies, but in this scene... I SOBBED. Fantastic, fantastic movie, it's too bad talent like this isn't as predominant in films today.
denison2005 1 year ago 2
The greatest movie ever made and the most beautiful ending too....thank you so much for posting this true cinematic gift.
BDEyes81 1 year ago
*sigh* beautiful...
GEVMM 2 years ago
like casablanca this is one of those movies, even if i get a brief glimps while channel surfing, i have to watch to it's conclusion. in fact. i'm watching it now on wgbh here in boston.
the reason i mention boston, is because warners recreated not only some of boston's landscape, but they perfectly recreated back bay station (it's now gone & a new station stands in it's place). as a college student i remember going down to the platform to take the train home, it was a wonderful old building
wntoply6 2 years ago
it's funny Paul Henreid was a big swashbuckling film star. He looks so awkward to me in those movies.
someonespadre 2 years ago
Mutti258. Thank you for your kind comment on my post
zzheavensdoor 2 years ago
The beauty of this film is that its about renunciation: giving up something. Today we are encouraged to "go for it", have it all, tell it all, make sure our needs are met, no matter what. There is a beauty and mystery in silence and sacrifice. However old-fashioned
zzheavensdoor 2 years ago 76
wow...good observation/insight...never woulda thought of it, and thats the best kind of insight to happen across, thanks.
mutti258 2 years ago
@zzheavensdoor i actually hate this movie but you've got a good point. not often movies these days celebrate (or even conclude on) compromise.
neokimchi 1 year ago
@zzheavensdoor you speak wonderful words
louissimmonds 1 year ago
@zzheavensdoor I love your film analysis, and it is true. Our post modern/atomic culture has embraced the self as all powerful, and we are loosing the essence of what it means to be human and feeling.
conchaperez 1 year ago 2
@zzheavensdoor - you are so right, I could not have put it any better.
ch88ch35 1 year ago
Love 'Wrong' [thats the music playing]; so-romantic
Shame 'girls' of today 'just dont get-it'; more romance please.
CashOnTheNail1955 2 years ago 3
Do you know the name of the theme song? Thanks
richracer1 2 years ago
Excellent !
rturnerful 2 years ago 3
just finished watching the movie, it always brings me to tears!!!
penguinluther 2 years ago 4
Always makes me cry. No matter how many times I see it.
I literally teared up watching it right now.
CarlyIsAGangster 2 years ago 4
This is my favourite film of all time - I cry my eyes out every time, especially at the last line.......pure classic.
rockchick1965 2 years ago 4
Adore Bette Davis - Always Sob my eyes out at this film - Totally True and Unselfish Love - Doing the Right thing for the Right Reason. Love it.
rockchick80s 2 years ago 31
@rockchick80s I totally agree...and I would do the same for HIM!!!
Taharah007 9 months ago
This is my favorite!
hr412 2 years ago 2
Don't know why, but this almost makes me cry. Betty is so wonderful!!! - The best actress ever. Miss Bette Davis!!!
DavidRosenberg1 2 years ago
As for the words, "Don't let's ask...". It is evidently a phrase that has gone out of fashion over the years. By coincidence, I am reading an Agatha Christie novel written in 1946, 4 years after the movie Now Voyager was made, and the following sentence appears in the book, "Well, don't let's waste time on Edward!" So there was no mistake with that usage in the movie. It is just a term that has for some reason slowly vanished.
uintaj 2 years ago 4
Can someone explain the dialogue for me...although this is a perfect and supremely romantic ending, I'm confused by what Bette says at the end "Oh Jerry, don't lets ask for the moon, we have the stars." I understand the comparison between the moon and stars, but I'm flummoxed by the "don't lets ask" phrase....anyone care to enlighten me?
Tecun85 2 years ago
The most simple is: Let's not be romantic fools, in flux like the moon, let's focus on the stable features--the unquestioned relationships we already share, namely with Tina (Jerry gave strength to BD before her self discovery but is too weak to leave his dum dum wife), etc.
ufhatch1 2 years ago
I see, thanks....one thing however, grammatically speaking, that sentence (don't let's ask for the moon...) doesn't make sense, why would Casey Robinson, who wrote the screenplay, include it? Sentimental effect possibly?? Thanks for the insight!
Tecun85 2 years ago
It does make sense, meaning "Do not let us ask for the moon..."; "let's" is not commonly used in that type of context any more, but it does make sense. They are appealing to themselves for the restriction.
keentwist89 2 years ago 4
Casey Robinson didn't write that line. That line is from the book.
StepsInTime 2 years ago
They called her sob sister Bette because she could make them all cry. One night, my mother, a hard, cynical cookie was channel surfing and we came upon Bette in the final moments of "Dark Victory" and she was like, "I don't wanna see this-" but kept it on and by the end she was in tears saying, "Goddammit, the bitch made me cry!! She always does that!!" and Bette does it well!!
DiamondRedd1 2 years ago 5
beautiful movie and performance
dewbunny110362 2 years ago 2
This is the original "Extreme Makeover" show. Bette Davis' transformation from unibrowed klutz to svelte socialite is glorious to watch. Davis never looked this beautiful before or after. I don't think the cigarette thing has aged well, though. It's almost comical by the time the last smoking duet is performed. (Carol Burnett did a hilarious parody of this movie back in the 1960s or 70s.)
OurHouseStAugustine 2 years ago
I watch this film every time it airs on TMC. And the soundtrack is so lush and romantic.
gfa527 2 years ago 2
Wonderful movie. I love it.
justsmile4me 2 years ago
soo romantic!
ROMANTICFilmsYuToob 2 years ago 2
The music is wonderful to Max Steiner what more can I add A Classic.
gf1001 2 years ago 3
The finest screen actress in her finest role REAL CLASS. THIS FILM ALWAYS WILL BE OUT OF ITS OWN thanks for posting.
gf1001 2 years ago 3
One of my all time greatest movies.bette davis fantastic. such class
656Djordan 2 years ago
makes me cry. Love ths film
NoRosesForMe 2 years ago
"Oh Jerry lets not ask for the moon, we have the stars" ...... sigh, so good!
bri4den 2 years ago
I liked about the first 2/3 of this movie. then she gets all creepy and obsessive over his daughter and it just completely lost me. maybe it's just part of the film that didn't age so well.
jfp1399 2 years ago
It doesn't get any better than this: Bette Davis with her two best leading men, Paul Henreid and Max Steiner.
4Topwood 2 years ago
Paul Henreid was so handsome and dashing! Sigh...not many are like him anymore
thebride6781 2 years ago 2
This is my mom's favorite movie....and one of my favorites too! I love that last line. Thanks so much for posting!
riteofspring13 2 years ago 3
pretty good i bought it
dewbunny110362 2 years ago
God Bless you Bette Davis! You are one of our greatest American treasures!
fairgirl7 2 years ago 2
They don't make em like that anymore... (deep sigh)
robynsegg 2 years ago 3
my all time favorite movie
oneromany 2 years ago 3
i watched this movie in a film class, and sadly, i think i was the only one who appreciated it, lol. During discussion everyone just commented about how immoral the movie was since the French guy (forgot his name) was cheating on his wife the whole time. =(
Lozie82 2 years ago 3
what a gentleman move. i gotta do that some day soon.
xadamryanx 2 years ago
I love the way she almost steps into his arms but instead moves to the window instead. Every time, I expect her to kiss him. She was the best.
zakalwe101 2 years ago 3
It gave me chills. So beautiful. Aw, when he lit both cigarettes, that was just too much.
The soaring musical scores from this era add so deeply to the emotions of the films. We don't have ridiculously epic scores any longer. I want them back!
charliebubblesoar 2 years ago 6
Oh, this clip is only a minute long and I want to cry. Beautiful movie if there ever was one. But then, nearly everything Bette Davis worked in turned out well.
dodginraindrops 2 years ago 3
This is the best Bette Davis movie by far, I don't care what anyone says! Killer film score by the great Max Steiner, too.
billyguns2 2 years ago 4
beautiful film!
AllAboutLOVEatYuToob 2 years ago
this is by far one of the best films i've ever seen...heaven,sheer heaven!
i'm getting all teary eyed just watching this scene...lol
CrazyBoutThe40s 2 years ago 7
Heaven:)
Isolar 2 years ago 2
nodoby, but absolutely nobody is able to drag on a cigarette like our Bette,sheer perfection.. such an evocative and by now a nostalgic film of which there is no equal in today's productions --superb !!!
rikkidelreeko 2 years ago 4
I love this movie very much
jack11anbar 2 years ago
I love this movie, I love Paul Henreid, I love Bette Davis, this is one of my favorite movies of all time - thanks for sending me this, genia! x
ChrisvonLuckner 2 years ago 2
I love that "Jerry don't let's ask for the moon" line. I sometime just say it out loud to myself sometimes. geniaaaaaaaaa a million of stars..... un beso...
fantasopera 2 years ago
Genia thanks for sharing
so good job
a warm greeting
Raul ...
conejolua 2 years ago
THE MOST ROMANTIC MOVIE OF ALL TIME!
genia106 2 years ago
Thanks Genia, Just wonderful.
phredl 2 years ago
...and those Bette's EYES !
Thanks, G.
J.
jurek46pink 2 years ago
I agree.
jozefsterkens 2 years ago
Genia Dear,
may there always be a Moon and Stars in your live !
D.
parlophonman 2 years ago
one of the most "classic hollywood" moments of any classic hollywood film.
and i think that this is THE bette davis movie, even more so than 'all about eve'.
larrynod 2 years ago
my top 10 list always gets bigger. But this one film has always been on it. Perhaps Bette"s one great movie., but then there was the Little Foxes, ect ect ...God Bless Bette
babyycat 2 years ago
It is the best film on the world,for all the time!!!!!!!!!
heribert0676 2 years ago
lovely film!
one of my favorites!
LoverOfEverythingOld 2 years ago
Sadly we can't make them like this anymore...I can't even think of anyone in Hollywood today that could play these 2 parts....The talent just isn't there...
jax1961 2 years ago 3
Sadly but true. Talent and Screen Presence isn't made like these any more. I wished I live during that particular time - life seemed to have been so different and common courtesy was a normalcy.
castalia60 2 years ago
MY mother was a tears at her film she and i loved to watch her she was a very pretty lady who could act. that yell,voice,I can never forget her. i miss those movies.wow love is strong get her movie.
esparzamichelle 3 years ago
God that music brings back so many memories... Bette's best movie......
babyycat 3 years ago
I luv Bette Davis, she was one of the greatest!
adriannelibra 3 years ago
This is a great movie.
justholli 3 years ago
I love Old Hollywood! So glamorous! Bette Davis eyes... Wonderful!
cherryrazzberry 3 years ago
Happy belated 104th birthday Paul Henreid!
tefisher1984 3 years ago
The Ultimate Selfless Sacrifice for Love - the love of a child, gut-churning stuff!!!
rockchick80s 3 years ago
my mother could go on mastermind about this film!
ysgol3 3 years ago
My Mother (a teen at the time) was forever in love with Paul Henried after this--I believe she said she crawled out of the theater she was crying so much!
It's a great film.
123writerlady 3 years ago
lol, i had to chuckle at your comment. it was a wonderful observation of your mother. god bless you 123writerlady.
and i totally agree, now voyager is a great film...miss davis alone made the movie the success it still enjoys today.
wntoply6 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL SCENE *I WANT TO SMOKE NOW*
suzieTheCute12 3 years ago
I adore this movie. This is my favorite part. I love that "Jerry don't let's ask for the moon" line. I sometime just say it out loud to myself sometimes.
aprilwearsgucci 3 years ago 4
That's incredible! Also, ques for whoever: What is the lighting of the two cigareets supposed to symbolize? I'm trying to figure it out for a paper I'm writing on this movie and I just want a bunch of diff opinions.
emster93 3 years ago
In the "oldendays" men almost always lit cigareetes at the same time, one for the woman, and one for themselves, it hapens in Casablanca with Bogart and Ingrid, just old fashioned chilvalry, but its kinda gone out of style,Lung cancer will do that...
smile4mejmarie 3 years ago
Actually, I could be wrong but supposedly Paul Heinred improvised the lighting of the cigarrettes. I'm sure that I read that somewhere - I dont remember that happening in Casablanca but I could be wrong.
ohworldgirl 3 years ago 3
That's what I've heard also, that he improvised it in the first cigarette scene in this movie on the balcony late at night. It changed the way Americans smoke cigarettes
bearnurse1 3 years ago
yes, I seem to recall watching a documentary where some Hollywood old-timer told how PH was supposed to light two cigarettes and after numerous takes he decided this was the most efficient, graceful way to do so. And from it, so much mimicry and inspiration. it's a very sexy and intimate way to light up.
Carebeer 3 years ago
This film is so beautiful, those lines, the cigarretes, so classic,thank you.
frodo322 3 years ago
HAHAH WHAT MSG me on M.S.N.
19-F-hottie here. I'm just saying that girls LOVE this vid. Jw
boratrocks123 3 years ago
the best!
profMike54 3 years ago
mezmerising!
LoverOfEverythingOld 3 years ago
Bette Davis is magnficent in this movie. Ironically, Irene Dunne was supposed to star but Bette Queen of The Warner Lot went to Jack Warner and pleaded for this role which turned out to be one of her greatest possibly her greatest!
This scene, shot on a stage at Warners, is more romantic and evocative than anything these new Directors try to do with the special effects, and all the jazz they use today.
Quietly moving, this scene is movie magic with a great star- Bette Davis- at her Peak.
ToughXArmy 3 years ago 3
I am truly sorry for the many people alive today who can't appreciate the older black-and-white films. Can you imagine this film with it's haunting music appearing to be as intimate and touching as it is, if it were made in color? The tear in her eye, the puffs of cigarette smoke, etc., would all be relegated to the background while your eyes focused elsewhere... Now Voyager, like Casablanca, was meant to be in lovely black-and-white.
uintaj 3 years ago 12
i couldn't agree with you more!..well said!
LoverOfEverythingOld 3 years ago
yes, yes uintaj. i too couldn't agree with you more.
wntoply6 2 years ago
unforgettable scene..i love this beautiful movie!
LoverOfEverythingOld 3 years ago
I loved Now, Voyager. It's [melo]drama, a little bit fairy tale-ish & romance all blended into one movie, in a typical fourties atmosphere. (: Bette Davis is also great in a 'good' role and she & Paul Henreid really have chemistry. Last but not least: these immortal final words.. they are very true: "Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars" (:
ClassicFilmFan 3 years ago 2
ahhhh the ciagrette gesture is soooo romantic. =)
ziegfeldgrl 3 years ago 3
The great Davis incomparable in so many movies is greatest here in "Now Voyager". Bette Davis insisted that on her tombstone should be "She Did It the Hard Way" and she did, with a brilliant career noted for always fine work.
Now Voyager is my fave Bette Davis film...a movie milestone. Oh that ending!
ToughXArmy 3 years ago
hey! check out my bette davis - now, voyager tribute. hope you like it. I dedicated a whole tribute to Now, voyager because I thought it a beautiful film with beautiful acting from bette davis.
classicmovies11 3 years ago
I have seen this movie probably 50 times, and still am not tired of it. Bonita Granville played Charlotte's cousin June who always picked on her.
bearnurse1 3 years ago
They both are good looking.. Both of them are so elegant.
blackempress27 3 years ago
iwish bette was alive today makeing such wonderful flims like this
blacksilverjose 3 years ago 3
So elegant!
mairin14 3 years ago
Is it just me or does Max Steiner's music suddenly make this scene the most climatic and romantic cigarette lighting of all time?
RubyTuesday717 3 years ago 6
It almost makes me want to start smoking too...My what writing...tissue please!
jax1961 3 years ago
It's not just you.
Bette Davis never had better onscreen chemistry than she did with Max Steiner. Her acting and his music together make pure movie magic.
ElizabethTalbot 3 years ago
I love Bette more than I can say. She had brass ones!
perrypearl 3 years ago 2
I love bette . she was my hero. A strange hero for a man perhaps. But in her movies i saw the world. For as a child i was sick alot . And it was her movies that ketp me going..
babyycat 3 years ago 7
I love Bette and watched this movie yesterday. Such a great classic. I don't get why people said she wasn't a classic Hollywood beauty. I think she was beautiful and had the best acting talent ever! - Love, Dawn xx
tez1111 3 years ago 5
BETTE DAVIS, the moon, PAUL HENREID, the cig's, the music, the story, it all adds up to one of the BEST movies ever made, I could watch it over and over.......and I do :)
kevbear45 3 years ago 3