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When Tomorrow Comes is a american film of genre Drama directed by John M. Stahl released in USA on 11 august 1939 with Irene Dunne
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
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Add to a movie listWhen 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.
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.
Synopsis
Un célèbre pianiste français en tournée s'arrête dans un bar et tombe amoureux d'une serveuse.Actors
Irene Dunne
(Helen)
Charles Boyer
(Phillipe Andre Pierre Chagal)
Barbara O'Neil
(Madeleine)
Onslow Stevens
(Holden)
Nydia Westman
(Lulu)
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