Tag: NOW VOYAGER

Vickie Lester visits Beacon Hill, and recalls the wise words of Dr. Jaquith

September 5, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Dr. Jaquith: You know, there’s nothing like these old Boston homes anywhere. Here on Marlborough Street or Beacon Hill, you see them standing in a row like bastions: firm, proud, resisting the new. Houses turned in upon themselves, hugging their pride. Charlotte Vale: [pointedly] Introverted, doctor? Dr. Jaquith: Well, I wouldn’t know about that. I don’t put much faith in scientific terms. I leave that to the fakers and the writers of books. “Now, Voyager” starring Bette Davis as a […]

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Bette Davis – Now, Voyager

September 22, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Before she saw Dr. Jaquith and got her head on straight and her eyebrows tweezed: And after:

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A Valentine to all Script Supervisors

September 22, 2014 by Vickie Lester

A couple of moths ago I heard an utterly beguiling director say this on set, “The moment of creating is over, NOW is the moment of matching.” Be still my beating heart – and watch those wineglasses, my darlings.

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Now, Voyager – novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

September 22, 2014 by Vickie Lester

A blizzard was raging in New York, so she had read on the bulletin-board before she left the ship. It was difficult to visualize sheets of fine snow driving obliquely against facades, while sitting on an open terrace in the sun gazing at calla lilies in bloom bordered by freesia. It was difficult, too, to believe that the scene before her was reality. It was more like a drop curtain rolled down between herself and the dull drab facts of […]

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