Breathtaking: Bette Davis's Performance at the End of Now, Voyager

From: Journal of Film and Video | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Shingler, Martin | Copyright information

IRVING RAPPER'S NOW, VOYAGER (1942) IS WIDELY CONSIDERED one of the finest examples of classical Hollywood melodrama, and Bette Davis, the star of the film, is widely regarded as one of the finest exponents of melodrama and of melodramatic acting. A commonly held view is that melodramatic acting involves a set of heightened and elaborated gestures and expressions: histrionic and conventionalized, even stereotypical. Over time, specific gestures, poses, movements, and expressions have become c...

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