There's Always Tomorrow (1956)When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life. Director:Douglas Sirk |
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There's Always Tomorrow (1956)When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life. Director:Douglas Sirk |
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| Barbara Stanwyck | ... |
Norma Miller Vale
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| Fred MacMurray | ... |
Clifford Groves
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| Joan Bennett | ... |
Marion Groves
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William Reynolds | ... |
Vinnie Groves
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| Pat Crowley | ... |
Ann
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| Gigi Perreau | ... |
Ellen Groves
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| Jane Darwell | ... |
Mrs. Rogers
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Race Gentry | ... |
Bob
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Myrna Hansen | ... |
Ruth
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Judy Nugent | ... |
Frances (Frankie) Groves
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Paul Smith | ... |
Bellboy
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Helen Kleeb | ... |
Miss Walker
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Jane Howard | ... |
Flower Girl
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Frances Mercer | ... |
Ruth Doran
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Sheila Bromley | ... |
Woman from Pasadena
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Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Alone and depressed, he meets old flame Norma, and one thing leads to another. While their relationship is still fairly innocent, his son Vinnie sees them together and suspects the worst. It's time for tortured souls behind rain-streaming windows... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Sirk aptly deals with basic family values and problems in a critical way, questioning the false appearance of stability and harmony of a typical American home. MacMurray's job in a toy factory provides plenty of interesting metaphors, often visual ones. In one scene Sirk even places 'Rex, the Walkie-Talkie Robot-Man' on the foreground, upstaging MacMurray and forcing a comparison between them. MacMurray's home, under the resemblance of a happy and harmonious family life, really seems like a big doll's house MacMurray being here a sort of male 'Nora'. The happy ending seems a bit awkward or phony, but it's what audiences were taught to expect back in the 50's; no other ending would have been allowed under the infamous Production Code, then still being enforced.