Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day (1943)

The Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Date of release
1943-01-21
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Cedric Hardwicke, Herbert Wilcox, Robert Stevenson, Edmund Goulding, Victor Saville, Frank Lloyd, René Clair

Casting

Interesting facts

Forever and a Day is a 1943 American drama film, a collaborative effort employing seven directors/producers and 22 writers, with a large ensemble cast of well-known stars.

Background

In March 1940, Cedric Hardwicke initiated plans for a movie made without remuneration by British writers, directors and actors/actresses, intended to honor their homeland's spirit and to benefit war relief charities, with RKO Studios financing the production costs of the film with a $300,000 budget: it was estimated that had the film's pro bono participants been salaried the film would have cost $6 million (the actors and actresses appearing in t…

The film – whose first working title was Let The Rafters Ring, with This Changing Time and Forever and a Day both later put forward as possibilities – had its original projected completion date of 1 June 1941 negated by the screenplay not being completed until April 1941. W. P.

The film's first episode – directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring his wife Anna Neagle, as well as Ray Milland and Claude Rains, was filmed in two weeks in May 1941, with Neagle and Rains reprising their roles in the second episode completed – under Robert Stevenson's direction – in June.

The fourth episode was set to film in the autumn of 1941 after Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock – the leading man and director – had completed the film Suspicion: the availability of the episode's leading lady: Ida Lupino, was a non-issue, the actress being on suspension at Warner Bros.

Clair later said, "Forever and a Day I totally disown", and he became involved after Hitchcock dropped out. He added, "Since the British considered I was almost one of them after having made two pictures in England, they asked me to direct that short sketch and so I agreed. But the script had already been completed, and I only partially revised it.

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