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Beyond Christmas (1940)
Beyond Tomorrow (original title)

APPROVED 84 min  -  Drama | Fantasy | Romance  -   10 May 1940 (USA)
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Three ghosts try to help two young lovers whom they knew when alive.

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Adele Comandini (screenplay), Mildred Cram (original story), and 1 more credit »
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Beyond Christmas -- On Christmas Eve, two young strangers are invited to dinner and they fall in love. When their benefactors die they come back as ghosts to try to help them.
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Harry Carey Harry Carey ...
George Vale Melton
C. Aubrey Smith ...
Allan Chadwick
Charles Winninger Charles Winninger ...
Michael O'Brien
Alex Melesh Alex Melesh ...
Josef - Butler
Maria Ouspenskaya Maria Ouspenskaya ...
Madam Tanya
Helen Vinson Helen Vinson ...
Arlene Terry
Rod La Rocque ...
Phil Hubert
Richard Carlson Richard Carlson ...
James Houston
Jean Parker ...
Jean Lawrence
J. Anthony Hughes J. Anthony Hughes ...
Officer Johnson
Robert Homans Robert Homans ...
Sergeant
Virginia McMullen Virginia McMullen ...
Secretary
James Bush James Bush ...
Jace Taylor
William Bakewell William Bakewell ...
David Chadwick
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Storyline

Melton, Chadwick and O'Brien, rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite three strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. Only two show up, James and Jean, they fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors...until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots; can ghostly O'Brien help the young folks? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>  

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Plot Keywords:

Ghost | Christmas | Airplane Crash | Seduction | Butler  | See more »

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What these three missed in life, they share with young romance in...

Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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Country:

USA

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Al di là del domani See more »

Company Credits

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Academy Productions See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

This was the most famous of the handful of films produced by Lee Garmes. Garmes was better known as one of the industry's leading Directors of Photography. See more »

Soundtracks

"It's Raining Dreams"
(1940)
Music by Harold Spina
Lyrics by Charles Newman
Performed by Richard Carlson (uncredited) at the radio station See more »