When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

IT LIVES AND BREATHES THE GREATEST MOMENTS OF A WOMAN'S LIFE!

A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.

Date of release
1939-08-11
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
John M. Stahl

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Sound

When Tomorrow Comes is a 1939 American romantic melodrama film directed by John M. Stahl, and starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. The screenplay concerns a waitress who falls in love with a man who later turns out to be a married concert pianist. Bernard B. Brown won the Academy Award for Best Sound.

Development

Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne had previously starred together in Love Affair, Leo McCarey's romantic dramedy distributed by RKO Pictures. It was a surprise hit, despite its troubled production, and viewers enjoyed watching Dunne and Boyer's characters fall in love. Hollywood was excited about the newest popular team-up, but Boyer was just announced to star in All This, and Heaven Too and was supposedly prepping for Intermezzo.

Filming took place in spring and was more relaxed than the Love Affair set, but Stahl was said to have lost 19 pounds (1.4 st) from the stress of retakes.

After the movie's release, Photoplay magazine's October issue featured two essays written by Boyer and Dunne about each other, in the style of a parlor game where a player who briefly left the room guesses the secret noun other contestants chose by asking questions like "If I were that person, what kind of car would I be?" The editor explained: "Surely, working together as they do and have done, and being analytical, intelligent people, each woul…

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