Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)

The Vibrant, Pulsing Story of a Woman Escaping Her Past!

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Date of release
1946-02-20
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Irving Pichel

Casting

Interesting facts

Tomorrow Is Forever is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Irving Pichel, adapted by Lenore Coffee from Gwen Bristow's 1943 serialized novel of the same name. Starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and George Brent, it was the film debut of both Richard Long and Natalie Wood. The film was produced by International Pictures, and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

Production

William Goetz bought the novel for his new company International Pictures and assigned it to producer Davis Lewis. Lewis said the novel "had much to recommend it, but it was basically a mental exercise and not a piece of dramatic material." He decided that "if the first child born to the

heroine belonged to her first husband, who was supposedly killed in the war, there would be someplace dramatic to go when the second husband came into play."

Natalie Wood's screen test for the film required her to act out the scene in which a party popper makes her character recall the murder of her parents by the Nazis. Because she had worked with Irving Pichel on his previous film Happy Land, initially, she was too happy to see him to properly cry. During production, Wood had to wear a dental bridge after losing two of her baby teeth.

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