Week Sixty-Four
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| "When Tomorrow Comes" 1939 |
MOVIE NAME: WHEN TOMORROW COMES
STUDIO: UNIVERSAL PICTURES CO.
PRODUCER: JOHN M. STAHL
DIRECTOR: JOHN M. STAHL
DATE: 1939
TYPE: DRAMA
CAST:
IRENE DUNNE as Helen, CHARLES BOYER as Phillip Andre Chagal, BARBARA O'NEAL as Madeline , ONSLOW STEVENS as Holden, NYDIA WESTMAN as Lulu , NELLA WALKER as Madame Dumont, FRITZ FELD as Nickolas , GRETA MEYER Madeline's maid , SONNY BUPP as Boy , TOMMY BUPP, as Boy swimming
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
AKA: A Modern Cinderella, and Give Us the Night
STORY: Phillip Andre Chagal, a famous French pianist, is completing an American tour when he stops at a cafe for lunch. His arrival creates a sensation when the waitresses, who are about to hold a secret union meeting, believe he is a company spy. Helen tries to trap him into admitting he is a spy and, impressed with her charm, decides to attend the meeting. At the meeting, Helen delivers a fiery speech and Phillip is enchanted. Also impressed is Holden, a union leader who is in love with her. After the meeting, Phillip and Helen take a walk, and Phillip tells her that he has not worked for weeks, leading her to conclude that he is unemployed. He asks her to spend the next day with him, and on a borrowed sailboat, they cruise until a sudden squall sends them to the shelter of a small wharf and Phillip's country home. Helen finally learns he is a famous concert pianist. As the storm increases, so does his passion, and Helen asks him to take her home. They are caught in a hurricane and take shelter in a church. Thinking that they will not live through the night, Helen confesses her love for Phillip who tries to tell her something, but she refuses to listen. In the morning they are rescued and taken to a camp where Helen learns that Phillip is married, and that his wife is waiting at the camp. Phillip, who is driving with his wife and mother-in-law, offers Helen a ride. In the car, Helen discovers that Madeline has become deranged by the loss of her child several years earlier. Sensing Phillips love for Helen, Madeline declares that she will never give him up. That night Phillip asks Helen to return with him to France, and broken hearted, she refuses and bids him a tearful farewell.
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