From This Day Forward
| From This Day Forward | |
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| Directed by | John Berry |
| Produced by | Jack J. Gross (executive producer) William Pereira (producer) |
| Written by | Garson Kanin (adaption) Hugo Butler (screenplay) Clifford Odets (uncredited)[1] |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Editing by | Frank Doyle |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 2 March 1946 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
From This Day Forward is a 1946 American film directed by John Berry.
As he sits in an unemployment office, blue-collar Bill Cummings (Mark Stevens) reviews the life events that brought him to this point: meeting and marrying his wife Susan in 1938; their financial ups and downs, the humiliation of being supported by Susan's bookstore clerking job; unfairly being prosecuted as a pornographer; and serving in World War II as a bombadier. After reminiscing he finds he has a badly needed job interview, and that Susan is pregnant.
Called "the most expressively optimistic film of the postwar Left" and "literally working-class cinema", [2] the screenplay was adapted from the 1936 novel "All Brides are Beautiful" by working-class immigrant novelist Thomas Bell. Director Berry and screenwriter Hugo Butler would both be caught in the Hollywood blacklist, and the uncredited writer Odets appeared as a HUAC friendly witness.
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- Joan Fontaine as Susan Cummings
- Mark Stevens as Bill Cummings
- Rosemary DeCamp as Martha Beesley
- Harry Morgan as Hank Beesley
- Wally Brown as Jake Beesley
- Arline Judge as Margie Beesley
- Renny McEvoy as Charlie Beesley
- Bobby Driscoll as Timmy Beesley
- Mary Treen as Alice Beesley
- Queenie Smith as Mrs. Beesley
- Doreen McCann as Barbara Beesley
- Erskine Sanford as Mr. Higgler
- unbilled players include Ellen Corby, Ralph Dunn, Blake Edwards, Milton Kibbee, Tommy Noonan and Moroni Olsen
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