Beyond Christmas (1940)

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84 min - Drama | Fantasy | Romance - 10 May 1940 (USA)

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Reviews: 24 user | 13 critic

Three ghosts try to help two young lovers whom they knew when alive.

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Cast

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

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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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Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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USA

Release Date:

10 May 1940 (USA) See more »

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Al di là del domani See more »

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Academy Productions See more »

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84 min

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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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Black and White

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1.37 : 1

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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 »

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

Beyond Christmas (1940)
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