Now, Voyager

Plots: A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman. Boston spinster Charlotte has had her life controlled entirely by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Feeling despondent, she’s convinced to spend time in a sanitarium. Soon she is transformed into a sophisticated, confident woman. On a cruise to South America, Charlotte meets and begins an affair with Jerry Durrance, a married architect. Six months later, she returns home and confronts her mother with her independence. One day, after a brief argument, her mother has a heart attack and dies. Charlotte inherits the Vale fortune but feels guilty of her mother’s death. She returns to the sanitarium, where she befriends a depressed young adolescent, Tina. The young girl’s depression was brought on by being rejected by her mother–Charlotte’s former lover Jerry’s wife. Charlotte takes Tina home to Boston with her. Charlotte Vale has never been out from under the domination of her matronly mother until she enters a sanitarium. Transformed into an elegant, independent woman, Charlotte begins to blossom as an individual. On a cruise to South America, she meets and falls in love for the first time with a man named Jerry–who turns out to be married. Upon her return, Charlotte confronts her mother, who dies of a heart attack. Guilt-ridden and despondent, Charlotte returns to the sanitarium, where she meets Tina. a depressed young woman who begins to find happiness with her new friend Charlotte. The connection they share is more than friendship: Tina is Jerry’s daughter. Through her friendship with Charlotte, Tina finds happiness, and the pair go back to Charlotte’s home in Boston. When Jerry sees how happy his daughter is, he leaves her with Charlotte. What about marriage for Charlotte and Jerry? “Don’t ask for the moon when we have the stars.”