FAVORITE CLIPS...Now, Voyager...1942...Charlotte Comes Back Home

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  • Charlotte Vale's mother (Gladys Cooper) is nothing but angry with her daughter's transformation into a beautiful, confident woman. Ms. Cooper is at her wicked best here. Bette Davis, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase and Mary Wickes. - Presented here under the provisions of Fair Use - "Now Voyager" Copyright 1942/2005, Turner Entertainment Co./Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. - available at warnervideo.com.

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  • @charlottewilson3031
    @charlottewilson3031 2 роки тому +46

    What a wretch of a mother! Gladys Cooper was superb!

  • @jeffbassin630
    @jeffbassin630 10 місяців тому +15

    This scene is just one example of what made Bette Davis the best actress of all time. Yes, there are some other "greats," but only one Bette Davis!

  • @debraabbadessa897
    @debraabbadessa897 2 роки тому +66

    Betty Davis was the best and no one compares to her till this day

    • @flenif2247
      @flenif2247 Рік тому +2

      100% and please don't even mention Meryl Streep. Bleck!

    • @filipchung2121
      @filipchung2121 Рік тому +2

      Debra Abbadessa You forget about Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwych and Joan Crawford. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. And Ingrid Bergman!

    • @flenif2247
      @flenif2247 Рік тому +1

      @filip chung I traveled extensively and the only person I've seen portrayed in nearly every country is Marilyn Monroe . Bette Davis comes in a far second place, but she does show up. No one else.Just saying...

    • @flenif2247
      @flenif2247 Рік тому

      @filip chung All great. Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardener and Gene Tierney also good at their jobs

    • @AnthonyHartley-b5c
      @AnthonyHartley-b5c 9 місяців тому +1

      @@filipchung2121 I agree but there was someting VERY SPECIAL about Bette and this was one of her best films.

  • @maryeliason1504
    @maryeliason1504 2 роки тому +46

    One of her best. I've lost track of the times I've enjoyed it. Gladys Cooper was excellent. Tyrant.

    • @jimjimmyjames59
      @jimjimmyjames59 2 роки тому +1

      Davis loved working with her and it shows. You don’t get scenes like these without real chemistry between the actors.

  • @travisdavis7591
    @travisdavis7591 6 місяців тому +4

    The way Davis so gracefully sat down with her legs already crossed. #period

  • @j.pablop.1998
    @j.pablop.1998 Рік тому +11

    I love Bette's clutch! It's so glamorous!!

  • @joanfitz4833
    @joanfitz4833 2 роки тому +70

    Love Mary Wickes. She was wonderful in everything she did. Played a nun in Sister Act in the '90's and was still as funny as ever.

    • @SongreverserR
      @SongreverserR Рік тому +2

      Isnt that so cool my mother saw this and i told her becuase sister act is one of her favs and she was soo suprised

  • @geoben1810
    @geoben1810 3 роки тому +52

    There are a few Bette Davis movies I haven't seen or known about. I've seen Now Voyager and it's unforgettable! Really enjoyed Claude Raines too! 👍😉

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 2 роки тому +3

      I used to see it on TCM sometimes. It's a very powerful movie, beautifully photographed and acted, and quite a bit ahead of its time. Charlotte is really like a teenager stunted from fully growing up by her dire mother, and I think in many ways this film prefigures the postwar ones about young people rebelling against their parents and a bigoted society.
      NV takes a remarkably...cold, questioning and detached view of the family - at the time, the happy family was an inviolable element in American culture and in Hollywood. Charlotte finally understands that she can't hope to be united with her lover in marriage, they will have to carry on the affair on the side - but the film openly accepts this. And it also accepts Charlotte taking care of Tina, even thoygh Tina isn't her daughter at all. So the three people the film cares the most about have to find their happiness and fulfilment beyond the legit family - and this is endorsed by the movie. That's amazing for a 1942 Hollywood production.

  • @thegodblogger3812
    @thegodblogger3812 2 роки тому +39

    Charlotte's mother is my mother. Only eight months ago did I finally get my mother straight. She's not speaking to me. Never have I had so much peace in my life.

    • @philipofsparta1355
      @philipofsparta1355 2 роки тому +8

      I don't know about you but I always feel frustrated that Charlotte handles the situation so... passively. I want her to have given her mother a mouthful and pushed her out the window!

    • @thegodblogger3812
      @thegodblogger3812 2 роки тому +4

      @@philipofsparta1355 Yes 😆😆😆

    • @scorpioninblue
      @scorpioninblue 2 роки тому +1

      @@philipofsparta1355 Oh stop! LOL!!

    • @rogerpropes7129
      @rogerpropes7129 Рік тому

      @@philipofsparta1355 But that would have been reverting to Davis's bitchy mannerisms that made her famous, and she so seldom got the chance to really act..

    • @patricknoland7402
      @patricknoland7402 Рік тому +3

      I had a similarly monstrous, mean, bigoted Mother. Unlike the passive Charlotte Vale, I gave my Mother a piece of my mind. We never got along. Her death was a blessing.

  • @jaymathews356
    @jaymathews356 3 роки тому +26

    I always love that hat! It really frames her face so well.

  • @larrykaufman8100
    @larrykaufman8100 2 роки тому +16

    Have watched this movie many times and I cry every time….superb acting!

  • @johnlorenzen4633
    @johnlorenzen4633 4 роки тому +55

    Fabulous scene. Everything delineates tyranny of mother over daughter

    • @markgregorio377
      @markgregorio377 2 роки тому +1

      Gladys Cooper sure was one of the best character actresses I've seen that really portrayed her roles so very realistic.Remember her in The Miracle of Fatima. So cruel as a nun and in My Fair Lady as the regal mother of Henry Higgins.

  • @bobdereimer5210
    @bobdereimer5210 3 роки тому +16

    Gladys Cooper certainly knew how to make me listen to her rant, over and over . . .

  • @BearCubster
    @BearCubster 5 років тому +51

    One of my all time favourite films.
    It makes me feel young... and old at the same time.

  • @omargoodnesssake
    @omargoodnesssake 3 роки тому +18

    *WOW! Mrs. Vale is a MOTHER all right!* 😳

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 2 роки тому

      Good film to watch on Mother's Day.

  • @brianhowling5864
    @brianhowling5864 4 роки тому +20

    I am enjoying the lock down watching all these fantastic moves i find her very beautiful the most wonderful actress 😚

  • @jonny4u23
    @jonny4u23 2 роки тому +4

    Outstanding my best just love Bette Davis

  • @johnderham2829
    @johnderham2829 4 роки тому +17

    My all time favourite Bette Davis film followed by Dark victory and the old maid brilliant

    • @albertsmyth9616
      @albertsmyth9616 4 місяці тому +1

      I saw Dark Victory when I was about 20 (I’m 62 now) and it rocked my world & deeply moved me so that I’ve never forgotten it. Contemporary films seem vacuous and shallow in comparison and don’t even have good stories let alone a strong moral message like Now Voyager & Dark Victory. THIS was the Golden Age of Hollywood as far as I’m concerned.

    • @johnderham2829
      @johnderham2829 4 місяці тому +1

      @@albertsmyth9616 I agree I was very young when I fell in love with the golden age of Hollywood Bette Davis Joan Crawford I've a lot of their films

    • @johnderham2829
      @johnderham2829 4 місяці тому

      @@albertsmyth9616 watch the Anniversary she's cuttingly nasty love it

    • @albertsmyth9616
      @albertsmyth9616 4 місяці тому +1

      @@johnderham2829 Yes indeed, agree totally. They were great stars with genuine talent and there are only a handful like that today and even so, they’re not as talented as the great stars were then in my humble opinion.

  • @ginamitembe8935
    @ginamitembe8935 2 роки тому +13

    WHAT a wicked mother!!! So jealous of her daughter!!

    • @007beck9
      @007beck9 2 роки тому +2

      She bullied her daughter

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 11 місяців тому

      What scares ME is that she was pretty much exactly like my own late mother. Who was ALSO from one of those very old northern American families.

  • @divox9pqr
    @divox9pqr 2 роки тому +10

    I loved this movie, Ms Davis, Ms Cooper, and Rains, the doctor. The first time I saw it was with my Mother, and it reinforced the urge to travel, to see the world. That big old house the Vale’s lived in was like our big old house.

    • @zyxw2024
      @zyxw2024 2 роки тому +2

      And have you, traveled extensively?

    • @dergluckliche4973
      @dergluckliche4973 2 роки тому +1

      This comment makes me wish we were friends.

  • @dobazajr
    @dobazajr 3 роки тому +9

    I really like how Bette stop for awhile before opening the door.

  • @paullewis2413
    @paullewis2413 2 роки тому +5

    There’s only one comment I can make concerning the acting - Incomparable!

  • @takakhan-z3w
    @takakhan-z3w 3 роки тому +43

    Such a horrible witch. Gladys Cooper in reality was said to be an incredibly kind person. This is perhaps one of her most memorable roles.

    • @ivancervi1825
      @ivancervi1825 3 роки тому +1

      A kind person interpretes well a witch...do you think so?😊

    • @christinedubois5954
      @christinedubois5954 3 роки тому +4

      @@ivancervi1825 Poor Claude Rains! How did he stand that woman? Gladys Cooper played such a nasty person in this Movie!

    • @kerriethompson2073
      @kerriethompson2073 2 роки тому +1

      She played a similar role in the Bishop's Wife except she's way worse in this movie.

  • @jackjules7552
    @jackjules7552 2 роки тому +9

    Her mother is old and wicked. Charlotte should have fled that house as soon as she arrived.

  • @orlandocordova8670
    @orlandocordova8670 2 роки тому +2

    Such a great film! Thank You, Big Daddy Sir!, For the reminder of great film!

  • @a.m.308
    @a.m.308 2 роки тому +28

    I wish everyone still dress like this.

    • @Mike8981
      @Mike8981 2 роки тому +6

      I do!

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 11 місяців тому

      @@Mike8981 You're a guy and you wear expensive fancy dresses and gowns? 😂

    • @akrenwinkle
      @akrenwinkle 9 місяців тому

      @@Mike8981 Mike, humor almost always falls on its ass on these boards.

  • @raddish4256
    @raddish4256 3 роки тому +11

    Gladys Cooper reminds me of Cloris Leachman...in that they were both great beauties but it's not what they were later famous for.

  • @zyxw2024
    @zyxw2024 2 роки тому +5

    Just years before I was born this film was made. I don't recognize this era. Meaning life is very different now, indeed. And why wouldn't it be. 😊

  • @joaocarlosbrazbraga3187
    @joaocarlosbrazbraga3187 3 роки тому +13

    Estrela fabulosa. Bette magnífica Davis

  • @dergluckliche4973
    @dergluckliche4973 4 роки тому +13

    One of my faves. I only wish the scene had been filmed in...higher contrast?...so we could see the details of Charlotte's suit, hat and stole.

    • @kellylaflash1016
      @kellylaflash1016 7 місяців тому

      It likely was, originally, but film quality degrades over time. Old movies looked very different when they were on brand new film.

  • @martincontreras444
    @martincontreras444 2 роки тому +3

    Bette Davis es la mejor de todos los tiempos gracias a Dios nos podemos deleitar de su increíble trabajo con la tecnología. Irrepetible mounstuo de arte.

    • @susanb2015
      @susanb2015 Рік тому

      There were way more great old movies to enjoy in the 1970s on free antenna TV.

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 2 роки тому +6

    Charlotte, now in her new persona...( tho' still a little shaky on her feet) quietly but firmly, faces her mother. And with Claude Rain's words in her ear, moves forward. But then, Paul Henried is just down the road apiece..with those two cigarettes...

  • @joanblack6672
    @joanblack6672 Рік тому +2

    Major dialogue flub: her mother says "Hilda is just Lisa's size; we've had all your dresses fitted to her." She should have said "Hilda is just your size; we've had all your dresses fitted to her".

  • @derekantoine4396
    @derekantoine4396 6 місяців тому

    Miss Gladys Cooper should have won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Now voyager. After the great Bette Davis, she stole all the scenes. Miss Mary Wickes was always a joy, and a hoot to watch in everything she was placed in. Hollywood :The Golden Age. And never repeated. Delboy. 🎉🎉🎉.

  • @leighcochran7303
    @leighcochran7303 6 місяців тому

    I just have to point out that NO house in the Back Bay, Boston has a front lawn. They have steps to the street. Ha-rumph! I still love Bette! ❤

  • @MrQbenDanny
    @MrQbenDanny 3 роки тому +8

    MAX STEINER was the wind beneath Bette Davis movies.This is probably his best.

    • @markcrowder489
      @markcrowder489 3 роки тому

      The tenderness of the music in the final scene as Bette and Paul talk on the patio perfectly matches their emotion.

    • @MrQbenDanny
      @MrQbenDanny 3 роки тому +1

      @@markcrowder489 Agree 👍. That dancing scene at the ball in JEZEBEL was stunning. Max Steiner was a genius. In Mildred Pearce, he stole from himself, playing some NOW VOYAGER!!!

  • @deb-1558
    @deb-1558 4 роки тому +6

    Bette Davis 😍

  • @davy91101
    @davy91101 3 роки тому +7

    Pure hokum but with Davis and Cooper it will always be a "must see" Davis film as both ladies elevate Olive Higgens Prouty as a name that would have been forgotten except for these two ladies and Stanwyk (sp?) performance as the ultimate in mother love.

    • @Wendyj55
      @Wendyj55 8 місяців тому

      I don't see it as hokum

  • @sanfranciscoleatherdaddyxx3257
    @sanfranciscoleatherdaddyxx3257  10 років тому +9

    Thanks for noticing, my apologies to Gladys Cooper, may she rest in peace!

  • @sands7779
    @sands7779 Рік тому

    One of my favourite scenes.

  • @eamestv
    @eamestv 11 місяців тому

    Thank God for UA-cam!

  • @chrisrobinson6094
    @chrisrobinson6094 2 роки тому +1

    What a wonderful movie what a love story 💜💜💜

  • @maryriley1861
    @maryriley1861 2 роки тому +6

    I love this movie. Charlette was ever so right in facing her life the way she wanted. Not Mother!!!

  • @Elizabeth-pd4sd
    @Elizabeth-pd4sd 6 місяців тому

    Gladys Cooper was one of the Gibson Girls - the great beauties of 1900 LOL

  • @FreedomofSpeech865
    @FreedomofSpeech865 2 роки тому +11

    How they used to normalize accepting the abuse of toxic parents.

  • @ErnestParker-h8j
    @ErnestParker-h8j Рік тому

    This movie is my all time favorite

  • @xannaduu
    @xannaduu 2 роки тому +1

    This scene always reminds me that I need to schedule a wax for my eyebrows. 😆

  • @steveadams9957
    @steveadams9957 3 роки тому +4

    Reminds me so.much of me im Charlotte and this was my mother putting guilt shame and disgust uppon myself God how I hate her

  • @connynielson8686
    @connynielson8686 Рік тому

    Watched it with my mum and my gran..its a mother-daughter film

  • @rhetor81
    @rhetor81 10 років тому +11

    Bette's mom is played by Gladys Cooper, not Gladys George.

  • @JPG_Spizzfan
    @JPG_Spizzfan Рік тому +1

    Love Gladys cooper she's a wonderful actress she's so dramatic and excellent acting skills, which sadly not in any of today's so called actress.

  • @DWKThedogbreaths
    @DWKThedogbreaths 2 роки тому +3

    Stand up to the old bag

  • @markrichards6863
    @markrichards6863 5 місяців тому

    No wonder mom and dad had separate rooms. Mom is a real battle ax.

  • @irish89055
    @irish89055 Рік тому +1

    The driver, Oliver, should have said "yes ma'am"

  • @jonathanneil5901
    @jonathanneil5901 3 роки тому +5

    Love the clip, almost as much as the UA-cam channel name 😛

    • @PuffKitty
      @PuffKitty 3 роки тому

      The channel name caught my eye for sure lol

  • @alexfernandohuenten1374
    @alexfernandohuenten1374 2 роки тому +1

    Idole

  • @patrickoconnell3025
    @patrickoconnell3025 2 роки тому

    Outrageous ❤️

  • @AnthonyHartley-b5c
    @AnthonyHartley-b5c 9 місяців тому +1

    Bette was wonderful in this movie and I think the wardrobe was created by the Australian Orry-Kelly but I might be wrong. I do know that Kelly did design gowns for Bette by I think they had a falling out at some point. Sadly Kelly waa an alcoholic which affected his work.

  • @soulonice99
    @soulonice99 3 роки тому +2

    Hop! Jump! Skip! Roll-over and play-dead! :)))))))

  • @robertwilson123
    @robertwilson123 10 місяців тому +2

    Gladys Cooper plays almost a superb New England type mother... it's.just that she's too nice and not as severe as the real ones.

  • @steplumpkin5432
    @steplumpkin5432 Рік тому

    THE GREAT G.COOPER!!!!!!!

  • @bbrown5463
    @bbrown5463 Рік тому

    Good movie!!

  • @FernandoVieira-bx9dv
    @FernandoVieira-bx9dv Рік тому

    This wonderful scene reminds me the Song "Mother" by Pink Floyd" ...

  • @ppdaggericaza8022
    @ppdaggericaza8022 Рік тому

    Betty Davis gran actriz

  • @jimr4319
    @jimr4319 2 роки тому +1

    "Ma-ma" is in for a surprise.

  • @joeg2964
    @joeg2964 2 роки тому

    What a movie.

  • @marialuizasaboiasaddi2160
    @marialuizasaboiasaddi2160 8 місяців тому

    Bom. Cinema

  • @julietteyork6293
    @julietteyork6293 Рік тому +3

    Yes, there are mothers who are this abusive

  • @angelforceforyou
    @angelforceforyou 2 роки тому +6

    The narcissistic mother

  • @manthony777
    @manthony777 2 роки тому +1

    That Cowboy Hat

  • @triptideshmukh863
    @triptideshmukh863 Рік тому

    Betty is superb

  • @truthseekeralways7050
    @truthseekeralways7050 2 роки тому +1

    What is that she found on her daughter's Room ?

  • @mehmetokay7073
    @mehmetokay7073 Рік тому

    Mother knows best.

  • @orlandobabe
    @orlandobabe 3 роки тому +5

    What a horrible mother, she loves blaming her daughter for giving birth to her.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 2 роки тому +3

      Mmm. The film takes a remarkably cold and critical view of the family as an institution, it is really painted as oppressive, lacklustre, flawed, a place of double standards, jealousy and misgivings. It's clouded a little by the framing of the story as "from ugly duckling straight to swan when she meets the right man" , but Charlotte really is fighting her mother - and towards the end of the film she realizes that she can never share a legal family with the man she loves, so they will have to find their happiness beyond the family. That was quite radical in 1942 (and it comes straight from Prouty's novel, of course).

  • @latoshaadams3828
    @latoshaadams3828 Рік тому +1

    Girl I would leave

  • @PhilAlumb
    @PhilAlumb 6 місяців тому +1

    Charlotte.. claimed she would consider being a "waitress"--which is a Laugh! It would've been a Fascinating movie IF HER MOTHER had DISINHERITED Charlotte and, then, see how She coped with being..Poor.

  • @maggieb369
    @maggieb369 2 роки тому +4

    What a toxic parent!

  • @ezrhino100
    @ezrhino100 2 роки тому +2

    no mother wants her daughter to be sexy. it's a mother's worst nightmare.

    • @julietteyork6293
      @julietteyork6293 Рік тому +1

      Why is having a beautiful daughter a mother’s worst nightmare?

    • @ezrhino100
      @ezrhino100 Рік тому

      @@julietteyork6293 they start manipulating men, like this movie. Unless you're into that as a mother....

    • @julietteyork6293
      @julietteyork6293 Рік тому +1

      @@ezrhino100
      She wasn’t manipulating men. What a twisted take.

    • @ezrhino100
      @ezrhino100 Рік тому

      @@julietteyork6293 so the men liked her before the make over and the dead animal around her neck? How about yoga pants and low cut top? That would fly over well...

    • @julietteyork6293
      @julietteyork6293 Рік тому +1

      @@ezrhino100
      Get professional help

  • @isabeldieguez5214
    @isabeldieguez5214 2 роки тому +1

    Traduzcan!!!!

  • @eliothorowitz5627
    @eliothorowitz5627 2 роки тому

    Maybe someone here knows...was that Max Steiner conducting the orchestra at the concert?

  • @stephenfermoyle4578
    @stephenfermoyle4578 3 роки тому +5

    WICKED

  • @patrickhicks9880
    @patrickhicks9880 2 роки тому +1

    the transformation in this film is almost like a sex change

    • @manthony777
      @manthony777 2 роки тому +2

      @Patrick, that cowboy hat makes it even more so. 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

  • @ryohn5468
    @ryohn5468 2 роки тому +1

    Where was Lizzie Borden when we needed her?

  • @susanapol382
    @susanapol382 6 місяців тому

    I wonder why she hated her daughter so much.

  • @virtualpilgrim8645
    @virtualpilgrim8645 2 роки тому +1

    I can't stand most modern movies.

  • @vg5157
    @vg5157 11 місяців тому

    I hate Gladys Cooper right there. LOL, excelent acting

  • @angelavitulli6994
    @angelavitulli6994 Рік тому +1

    Mother bully in cheif

  • @pinkprincess1711
    @pinkprincess1711 Рік тому

    BETTE DAVIS LOOKS LIKE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD COMPARED TO MARY WICKES

  • @tracymorgan5386
    @tracymorgan5386 9 місяців тому

    Her mother is unbearable jeez.

  • @Mftjan2000
    @Mftjan2000 4 місяці тому

    One of the nastiest mothers on film.