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Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
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Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)

Drama, Romance • 1h 45m

Overview

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Director: Irving Pichel

Cast: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood, John Wengraf, Sonny Howe, Ian Wolfe, Joyce Mackenzie, Jesse Graves, Henry Hastings, Boyd Irwin, Tom Wirick, Jack Cheatham, Lois Austin, Charles D. Brown, Mike Donovan, Jessica Grayson, Milton Kibbee, Anne Loos, Thomas Louden, Irving Pichel, Gary Pietila, Douglas Wood, Leonard Carey, Jeffrey Sayre, Lane Chandler, Lane Watson, Sam Wren, Libby Taylor, Betty Greco, Barbara Bletcher, Marguerite Campbell, Helen Gerald, Anne Howard, Bobbie Brooks, Nena Ruth, Evan Thomas, Carmen Beretta, Carli Elinor, Louis Lowy, Charles H. Faber, Rudolf Myzet, Tina Menard, Lala Detolly, Loulette Sablon, Catherine Savitsky, Waclaw Rekwart, Count Stefenelli, Amzie Strickland, Hilda Tanzler, William Dyer Jr., Jack Lindquist, Michael Sloane, Frank Chalfant, Buster Phelps, Eugene Taylor, Bob Tidwell, Frank Wyrick

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