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>
This film is one of the great Hollywood films yet so few have ever heard of. Not only does it rate with Douglas Sirk's better known films ("Magnificent Obsession," "All that Heaven Allows," and "Imitation of Life), but is as much a devastating a critique of the American Dream as other fifties movies like "Bigger Than Life." And unlike many melodramas which center on the emotional isolation and turmoil of the central female character, this one analyzes the pain of the main male figure (Fred MacMurray). The film's acting, direction, and script have a precision so well thought out that the effect--both at any given moment and overall --is absolutely astonishing. An incredible film crying out to be rediscovered.