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There's Always Tomorrow

  • 19551955
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 24m
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There's Always Tomorrow (1955)
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
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When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.

IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Douglas Sirk
  • Writers
    • Bernard C. Schoenfeld(screenplay)
    • Ursula Parrott(story)
  • Stars
    • Barbara Stanwyck
    • Fred MacMurray
    • Joan Bennett
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  • Director
    • Douglas Sirk
  • Writers
    • Bernard C. Schoenfeld(screenplay)
    • Ursula Parrott(story)
  • Stars
    • Barbara Stanwyck
    • Fred MacMurray
    • Joan Bennett
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    • 36User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
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    Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck
    • Norma Miller Valeas Norma Miller Vale
    Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray
    • Clifford Grovesas Clifford Groves
    Joan Bennett
    Joan Bennett
    • Marion Grovesas Marion Groves
    William Reynolds
    William Reynolds
    • Vinnie Grovesas Vinnie Groves
    Pat Crowley
    Pat Crowley
    • Annas Ann
    Gigi Perreau
    Gigi Perreau
    • Ellen Grovesas Ellen Groves
    Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell
    • Mrs. Rogersas Mrs. Rogers
    Race Gentry
    Race Gentry
    • Bobas Bob
    Myrna Hansen
    • Ruthas Ruth
    Judy Nugent
    Judy Nugent
    • Frances (Frankie) Grovesas Frances (Frankie) Groves
    Paul Smith
    Paul Smith
    • Bellboyas Bellboy
    Helen Kleeb
    Helen Kleeb
    • Miss Walkeras Miss Walker
    Jane Howard
    Jane Howard
    • Flower Girlas Flower Girl
    Frances Mercer
    Frances Mercer
    • Ruth Doranas Ruth Doran
    Sheila Bromley
    Sheila Bromley
    • Woman from Pasadenaas Woman from Pasadena
    Dorothy Bruce
    • Sales Manageras Sales Manager
    Hermine Sterler
    Hermine Sterler
    • Tourist's Wifeas Tourist's Wife
    Fred Nurney
    Fred Nurney
    • Touristas Tourist
    • Director
      • Douglas Sirk
    • Writers
      • Bernard C. Schoenfeld(screenplay)
      • Ursula Parrott(story)
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    Storyline

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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... —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
    • toy factory
    • los angeles california
    • remake
    • based on novel
    • toy
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      • Drama
      • Romance
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    • Trivia
      Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris named it as one of his 10 favorite films in the 2002 BFI Sight & Sound Poll.
    • Goofs
      Near the end of the film, Cliff bumps the toy robot on the table, starting it walking towards the camera and he walks back to the shop window. The camera starts tracking forward and as the toy robot is walking forwards out of the shot, bottom left, the shadow of the camera falls across the toy robot.
    • Quotes

      Norma Miller Vale: Love is a very reckless thing. Maybe it isn't even a good thing. When you're young and in love, nothing matters except your own satisfaction. The tragic thing about growing older is that you can't be quite as reckless anymore.

    • Connections
      Featured in Perspectives on the American Family: Allison Anders on Douglas Sirk's 'There's Always Tomorrow' (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Blue Moon
      (uncredited)

      Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

      Played on one of the toys and heard as a theme throughout the film

    User reviews36

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    Top review
    8/10
    Wrong said Fred
    Yet another impressive Douglas Sirk melodrama centring on the contemporary American family and in this particular film the American husband / father figure. Most of the Sirk movies I've seen seem to put women at the heart of the action but here the emotional crisis is thrust upon Fred MacMurray's toy salesman, a conventional, dutiful husband and father to his three growing children, one boy on the verge of adulthood, one daughter in her late teen, mildly rebellious years and another somewhat childish younger teenager. His wife, played by Joan Bennett, seems preoccupied with the needs and wants of these rather selfish children to the point where she seems ignorant of the effect the cumulative family disinterest is having on his emotional needs.

    Just as he's feeling especially insignificant along comes old flame Barbara Stanwyck in her third fine film with MacMurray to fan the sparks of his mid-life crisis into a full-blown blazing passion, to the extent where he has a secret if accidental weekend away with her and quickly comes to contemplate leaving his family for a life of excitement with her. Which way will he turn and what part will his two mortified older children, who in typical Sirkian grand coincidental fashion, learn of his plans, play in his final decision?

    Once again, Sirk brings family members to a crisis-point and even if the resolution this time takes a conventional course, still there's real drama in these excellently crafted and written scenes of anything but cosy domesticity. Cynics may make sneering remarks about all this amounting to shallow soap operatics but I think they would be wrong. Post-War Western and especially American society was evolving even against the "I Like Ike" background of greater personal wealth and the growth in consumerism but just under the surface it wasn't all sweetness and light and Sirk was one director who caught that change in attitudes in his mid-50's work.

    Once again MacMurray surprised me with the depth and roundedness of his performance as a middle-aged man cornered by society's expectations of him while Stanwyck in one of her last major roles before she, like MacMurray a bit later, turned to TV, is as good as she usually is as the unwitting Eve in Fred's supposed Garden of Eden. Her character of a flamboyant, self-confident, but importantly unmarried career-woman is equally worthy of deeper investigation as MacMurray's worm-turning Mr Suburbia.

    Lesser known than other Sirk dramas of the decade it's as good as any of them in my opinion and well worth watching.
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    • Release date
      • January 8, 1956 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Es gibt immer ein Morgen
    • Filming locations
      • Apple Valley Inn - Apple Valley Inn Road, Apple Valley, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal International Pictures (UI)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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