When Tomorrow Comes (film)

When Tomorrow Comes is a 1939 American romantic drama directed by John M. Stahl and starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. The screenplay concerns a waitress who 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.[3] It was remade as Interlude in 1957, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring June Allyson and Rossano Brazzi. [4] Both films were based on a novel by James M. Cain. Sirk himself cited Serenade as the title of that book, but in March 2014, in a long article for Senses of Cinema in which he discussed all three works, critic Tom Ryan revealed that both pictures are based on Cain's The Root of His Evil.[5]

When Tomorrow Comes
Directed byJohn M. Stahl
Produced byJohn M. Stahl
Screenplay byDwight Taylor
Story by"A Modern Cinderella"
by James M. Cain
Starring
CinematographyJohn J. Mescall
Edited byMilton Carruth
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • August 11, 1939 (1939-08-11) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million[1][2]

A scene in the film 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.[6]

Premise

A married pianist (Charles Boyer) deserts his mentally troubled wife when he falls in love with a pretty waitress (Irene Dunne).

Cast
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References
  1. "1939 Hollywood Toppers". Variety. January 3, 1940. p. 28.
  2. Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 116.
  3. "The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
  4. Brody, Richard. "John M. Stahl's "When Tomorrow Comes"". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  5. Ryan, Tom (March 19, 2014). "Film Adaptions analysis • Senses of Cinema". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  6. Yankwich, Leon Rene (December 14, 1942). "CAIN v. UNIVERSAL PICTURES CO., Inc., et al". District Court, S. D. California, Central Division. Retrieved June 20, 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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