And Now Tomorrow

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

A Man's Love! A Woman's Courage!

Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?

Date of release
1944-11-22
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Irving Pichel

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: And Now Tomorrow

And Now Tomorrow is a 1944 American drama film based on the best-selling novel, published in 1942 by Rachel Field, directed by Irving Pichel and written by Raymond Chandler. Both center around one doctor's attempt for curing deafness. The film stars Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, and Susan Hayward. Its tagline was Who are you that a man can't make love to you?. It is also known as Prisoners of Hope.

Production

The film was based on the last novel of Rachel Field. Field died on 15 March 1942, when the story was being serialised in a magazine; it was published in May. The book became a best seller. Paramount bought the film rights for $75,000, outbidding Warner Bros and David O. Selznick. They originally announced George Stevens would direct. Susan Hayward was announced early on to play one of the two sisters.

In September McCrea dropped out to do war work and was replaced by Franchot Tone. Jane Murfin was then working on the script. The film was meant to start production in November. Then Alan Ladd was invalided out of the army and became available for the role; Tone was dropped and replaced by Ladd.

Raymond Chandler signed a long-term contract with Paramount in late 1943 and he was put to work on the script.

Filming took place in December 1943 through to January 1944.

Loretta Young later said she "never made any contact" with Ladd as an actor:

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