When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
- Directed by
- John M. Stahl
- Genre
- drama film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 17 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A waitress falls in love with a charming man she meets. She later discovers he is a married concert pianist.
romanticdramaticmelancholicclassictenderbittersweetsuspenseful
What happens
When Tomorrow Comes is a 1939 American romantic melodrama film 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
- Intermezzo (1939)
- In Name Only (1939)
- Love Affair (1939)
- Broadway Serenade (1939)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Man About Town (1939)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- Ninotchka (1939)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…