When Tomorrow Comes (film)
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| Directed by | John M. Stahl |
| Written by | James M. Cain (story) Dwight Taylor |
| Produced by | John M. Stahl |
| Starring | Irene Dunne Charles Boyer |
Production companies | Universal Pictures John M. Stahl |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | August 11, 1939 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
When Tomorrow Comes is a 1939 romantic drama film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. A waitress falls in love with a man who later turns out to be a married concert pianist. Bernard B. Brown won the Academy Award for Best Sound.[1]
A scene in the movie where the two protagonists take refuge from a storm in a church was the subject of Cain v. Universal Pictures, a case in which the writer James M. Cain sued Universal Pictures, the scriptwriter and the director for copyright infringement. Judge Leon Rene Yankwich ruled that there was no resemblance between the scenes in the book and the film other than incidental "scènes à faire", or natural similarities due to the situation, establishing an important legal precedent.[2]
Cast
- Irene Dunne as Helen Lawrence
- Charles Boyer as Philip Chagal
- Barbara O'Neil as Madeleine Chagal
- Onslow Stevens as Jim Holden
- Nydia Westman as Lulu
- Nella Walker as Betty Dumont
- Fritz Feld as Nicholas
References
- ^ "The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
- ^ Yankwich, Leon Rene (December 14, 1942). "CAIN v. UNIVERSAL PICTURES CO., Inc., et al". District Court, S. D. California, Central Division. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
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External links
- When Tomorrow Comes at IMDb
- When Tomorrow Comes at the TCM Movie Database
- When Tomorrow Comes at AllMovie
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