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. Charlotte (Bette Davis), the youngest daughter of Mrs. Vale (Gladys Cooper), a member of an important Boston family, is suffering from physical and emotional insecurity, with a nervous breakdown accentuated by the attitude of her domineering mother. Her sister-in-law, L