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• W1590321606 abstract "IRVING RAPPER'S NOW, VOYAGER (1942) IS WIDELY CONSIDERED one of the finest examples of classical Hollywood melodrama, and Bette Davis, the star of the film, is widely regarded as one of the finest exponents of melodrama and of melodramatic acting. A commonly held view is that melodramatic acting involves a set of heightened and elaborated gestures and expressions: histrionic and conventionalized, even stereotypical. Over time, specific gestures, poses, movements, and expressions have become codified, acquiring particular meanings. Even in their more modern forms, they still bear the traces of a historical legacy rooted in pantomime, dumb-show, tableaux, and spectacle, resulting in something essentially gestural. Peter Brooks, in Melodramatic Imagination, has described this as an aesthetic of muteness, in which unspoken words and inexpressible emotions are rendered physically by the actor (62). Melodrama, however, is not necessarily devoid of dialogue; far from it. As Sarah Kozloff has argued in Overhearing Film Dialogue, melodrama involves excessive talk (i.e., talkativeness), through which the central characters reveal their innermost thoughts, feelings, and anxieties (241). often forbidden (i.e., socially unacceptable) nature of these thoughts, feelings, and anxieties leads characters to use metaphor and hyperbole, producing language that is highly rhetorical, ornate, aphoristic, sententious, literary, and overblown (239). Both Now, Voyager and Bette Davis have been seen to correspond to this view of melodrama. Sarah Kozloff writes that More than just revelatory, the dialogue in Now, Voyager is often blatantly ornate (250). She adds, The film's use of melodramatic gesture is equally noticeable (250). Davis, meanwhile, has been described as theatrical and exaggerated. In answer to the question, Who is this woman, Bette Davis? Stanley Cavell has written that: She is the one who can deliver a line-who has the voice, the contained irony, the walk, the gaze, and the glance away, to lay down a line-such as I am the fat lady with the heavy brows and all the hair. ... And she, this actress, is the distinct one who can close a film by saying, Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. She is, that is to say, capable of that flair for theater, that theater of flair, exaggeration it may be thought, call it melodrama, that these films of unknowness require. (226) During the 19305, Bette Davis developed an idiosyncratic speech style along with a particular set of physical mannerisms, most notably rolling eyes, fidgeting fingers, and a hip-swinging walk. Her style of speaking would become a defining feature of her star persona, one much imitated. staccato rhythms of the famous line Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night! (from All About Eve [1950]) most fully convey this signature style, epitomized by a clipped mid-Atlantic accent and an upper-class intonation. This is created largely by a stress upon the consonants, by hitting each consonant forcefully and precisely, emphasizing the Ps. the Ts, and the Bs, emphatically using the tongue to produce the stops, creating a series of rhythmic beats. This produces a percussive sound. However, it is combined with an intermittent lengthening of the vowels, for instance, Faesten your seatbelts. . This slight and occasional drawl injects a relaxed element into her lines, contrasting with the otherwise clipped intonation. This is not, however, Davis's only screen voice. In a number of films she adopted a soft Southern drawl, as in her Academy Award-winning performance as Julie Marsden in Jezebel (1938). For much of this movie, Davis speaks in a tiny voice, little more than a soft, high whisper, even when her character is angry. combination of a quite hard, loud, projected voice with something softer, quieter, and more intimate had become, by the late 1930s, a distinctive feature of Bette Davis's vocal style. …" @default.
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• W1590321606 title "Breathtaking: Bette Davis' Performance at the End of Now, Voyager" @default.
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