#Irving Rapper

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Paul Henreid and Bette Davis in Now Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

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Director Irving Rapper and Eleanor Parker on set of THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE (1947). Behind them are paintings of Katharine Cornell and John Barrymore.

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Bonita Granville-Ilka Chase "La extraña pasajera" (Now voyager) 1942, de Irving Rapper.

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Now, Voyager (1942), dir. Irving Rapper // Hail, Ceaser! (2016), dir. Joel & Ethan Coen

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THE CHRISTINE JORGENSEN STORY (1970) dir. Irving Rapper Half fiction, half truth, and based on her own autobiography, this is the life story of Christine Jorgensen, known as the first trans woman in the US to have a sex-affirming operation. Ever since she was a young child, Christine felt she was different from the boys, and by the time she becomes an adult, she finds herself increasingly confused regarding her identity. After a lot of research, Jorgensen heads to Denmark to have genital reconstructive surgery performed under the auspices of Dr. Victor Dahlman. (link in title)

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50. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)

Grants Charlotte an interiority rarely afforded to female protagonists of its time while also providing for a vision of feminine fulfillment that exists (somewhat) outside the traditional markers- marriage, beauty, motherhood. Davis eats. Rating: 9.2/10

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The Voice of the Turtle (1947)

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On the set of “Now, Voyager” 1942 at Warner Bros. with film director Irving Rapper (center) and his leading actors Paul Henreid and Bette Davis (right) | Marvin Paige Motion Picture and Television Archive.

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On January 31, 1998 The Exorcist, The Hand, and The Christine Jorgenson Story were screened on MonsterVision.

Here's some art inspired by all three features!

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Paul Henreid, Bette Davis, and John Loder in Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)

Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder, Ilka Chase, Lee Patrick, Franklin Pangborn, Mary Wickes, Janis Wilson. Screenplay: Casey Robinson, based on a novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. Cinematography: Sol Polito. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: Warren Low. Music: Max Steiner.

"A campy tearjerker," "kitsch," "a schlock classic" -- that's pretty much what you have to call Now, Voyager if you're a critic trying to prove your tough-mindedness, like Pauline Kael or the unidentified New York Times reviewer who dismissed it as "lachrymose." But there are at least two moments in the movie that bring it into focus as something more than just a routine weepie, or rather that suggest that even a routine weepie has a point to make. One is the scene in which Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) and Eliot Livingston (John Loder) break off their engagement in an off-handed, all-in-a-day's-work manner. Eliot is, after all, as square as Loder's jaw, and not at all the mate for a woman who has just discovered who she is. Of course, the breakup kills Charlotte's mother (Gladys Cooper), but that consequence is long past due. The other key moment for me is in the long final scene between Charlotte and Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid). She has more or less adopted Tina (Janis Wilson), the daughter that Jerry's never-seen wife doesn't want. But when Jerry tells her that he's taking Tina away, there's one of the more magnificent Bette Davis moments from a career full of them. His reason, you see, is that by devoting herself to Tina, Charlotte is apparently depriving herself of the opportunity to catch a man. For a brief moment we see Charlotte incredulous at that reason, followed by another moment of something like, "Lord, what fools men are." Jerry drops several notches in Charlotte's esteem at the moment, which leads into the film's most famous line, in which she dismisses Jerry's egocentric wishful thinking: "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." Charlotte Vale emerges from the film as one of the more admirable, level-headed women ever seen on a movie screen.

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Birthday remembrance - director Irving Rapper pictured with Bette Davis on set of NOW, VOYAGER (1942) #botd

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Ronald Reagan-Eleanor Parker "The voice of the turtle" 1947, de Irving Rapper.

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Wir feiern 100 Jahre Rhapsody in Blue (sie wurde am 12. Februar 1924 uraufgeführt) mit der dramaturgisch und faktenchecktechnisch etwas wackligen Gershwin-Filmbiographie Rhapsody in Blue, die aber jede Menge fabelhafte Musiknummern enthält, darunter -Sie ahnen es! Und nicht zu knapp!- die Rhapsody in Blue.

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Actresses in Hollywood complain that there are no parts for women. There are parts for women, but they are few and tend to go to the nubile. This may be good or bad, but it is true. Is it the job of the movies to offer a well-balanced distribution-by-gender of roles? If so, who would make the choice? Who but the slighted, seeking, as most of us do when accepting that role, not universal justice, but reparations? Even the dramatic roles for women, when viewed not as entertainment but as, if I may, art, are drivel - Now, Voyager; Sophie's Choice; and Flightplan - treating us to the noble spectacle of women either crying or bravely not crying.

David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla