The instructor smiled faintly and said “Do you think you are reading it correctly? What do you think it means?” I, of course, chose this one and I read it the way Bette did in 1942. I was going to write about all I saw, who I met and what I did.įast forward to current day, I am 55 years old, I still love the old movies, and still seek the ever changing untold want.Ī few weeks ago, we were asked to read our favorite poem aloud in one of my college classes. As a preteen, I made a pact with myself that someday I would launch and make all my dreams come true. I took this as my own signature poem, my mantra. The Whitman poem is an urging to be curious, to not wait for life and love to happen to me, but to go out and get it. I have watched this movie hundreds of times. When the ship reaches port, they agree to go their separate ways she would go back to her mother’s home and he would go back to his wife. They have a wonderful time together as friends, but then fall madly in love as always people did in those old movies. She uses the socialite’s name on board, wears her clothes, and during the journey meets a married man with children, traveling alone on business. Bringing the theme of voyager into the story. Now, Voyager (emphasis on voyager), sail thou forth to seek and find.”Īn arrangement is made for Charlotte to take the place of a socialite on a cruise ship who was unable to take the trip at the last minute. He’s put into words what I would like to say to you, now, and far better than I could ever express it.”Ĭharlotte reads aloud, “The untold want of life and love ne’re granted. Jaquith assures her she will be fine and hands her a slip of paper, saying “If old Walt didn’t have you in mind when he wrote this he had lots of others like you. The day of her release from the institution, she asks if she must leave as she is not certain she can make it on the outside. Jaquith (Rains), who takes her away to a place in the country to recover. She is introduced to a psychotherapist, Dr. The story unfolds as Charlotte (Davis) a sheltered young woman from a wealthy Rockefeller type family lead by an overbearing mother, suffers a nervous breakdown. Rich people with problems, travel, fashion, and Bette Davis. It had all the ingredients I loved in a movie. It starred Bette Davis, my all time favorite actress, Paul Henried and Claude Rains. ![]() Those old films transported me to exotic places I could never have imagined and introduced me to glamorous people whose only concern was whether they would make the opening curtain at the opera. I loved everything old Hollywood, the black and whites of the early years of cinema. I was first introduced to it as a preteen, when I discovered old movies with the help of my mother.
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