Next Time We Love (1936)

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

Director:

Edward H. Griffith

Writers:

Melville Baker (screenplay), Ursula Parrott (story),

Stars:

Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Margaret Sullavan	...	Cicely Tyler
James Stewart	...	Christopher Tyler
Ray Milland	...	Tommy Abbott (as Raymond Milland)
Grant Mitchell	...	Michael Jennings
Robert McWade	...	Frank Carteret
Anna Demetrio	...	Madame Donato
Ronnie Cosby	...	Kit (as Ronald Cosby)

Storyline

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

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Plot Keywords:

foreign correspondent | train | marriage | manhattan new york city | fired from the job | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 January 1936 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amemos Outra Vez

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 29, 1951 with James Stewart reprising his film role.

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Connections

Featured in The Universal Story (1995)

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Soundtracks

"Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish): 1st movement"
(excerpt)"
Music by Robert Schumann
Played over opening credits

User Reviews

The First In A Long Line Of Female Hearts

By the time her fifth film was ready to be launched Margaret Sullavan had achieved a position of some clout with her original studio Universal Pictures. She used that clout to get as her leading man, a young player she knew from Broadway as the best friend of her then husband Henry Fonda. Sullavan got Carl Laemmle to get Louis B. Mayer to loan him James Stewart and from Paramount as the second lead she got Ray Milland.

But Stewart was her project and she more than director Edward Griffith got him through Next Time We Love to favorable notices. This was Stewart's highest billing yet, co-starring to Margaret Sullavan and he made the most of it. They did three more films together and in only one of them did either Sullavan or Stewart not die in. They were the king and queen of bittersweet romances back in the day.

Sullavan is highly successful stage star and Stewart is a reporter with ambitions to be an international correspondent. Sullavan might have been better off marrying Ray Milland who is a producer, but something about the shy and stammering Jimmy wins her heart and that would be the first in a long line of female hearts on the screen to feel that way.

Of course being an international correspondent does keep Stewart away a lot and Margaret does not want to give up a successful stage career that's just getting started. Even with the arrival of a baby boy the problems only increase until a really heavy crisis comes on that overwhelms all.

Next Time We Love is an intelligent mature drama that holds up well and I'm surprised has not been remade. I could see a Cate Blanchett or a Gwyneth Paltrow in Sullavan's role with possibly Matthew McConaughey in the Stewart part in a remake today. Somebody in Hollywood take note.