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Yes. Now, Voyager is a 1941 novel by American novelist Olive Higgins Prouty [1882-1974]. It was adapted for the movie by screenwriter Casey Robinson [1903-1979]. The title comes from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads, The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.

Scenes were filmed showing Charlotte (Bette Davis)'s "transformation" at the hairdresser's with Lisa (Ilka Chase), as well as them shopping together, but during the editing process producer Hal Wallis decided to cut these scenes and save the audience's first glimpse of Charlotte's new look for the ship.

When Dr Jaquith (Claude Rains) first comes to visit with Charlotte, she reveals that she hides cigarettes and alcohol there. The novel gives further details when Charlotte's mother (Gladys Cooper) tells her that she had William move her things downstairs. The color mounted to Charlotte's face. She had left for Cascade so unexpectedly last fall that she had failed to remove a number of articles from the dark tunnels behind her books -- cigarettes, three reclining bottles of medicated sherry, so bitter she'd never been able to consume but half of one bottle, a pink tin make-up box, and all that literature which her mother considered indecent.

The movie gives no indication of what becomes of Charlotte or Jerry (Paul Henreid). However, Bette Davis has been interviewed as saying that, in her mind, Charlotte ends up marrying Dr Jaquith.