Only Yesterday (1933 film)

Only Yesterday
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Directed by	John M. Stahl
Produced by	Carl Laemmle Jr.
Written by	Stefan Zweig (uncredited novel) Frederick Lewis Allen (book) William Hurlbut George O'Neil Arthur Richman
Starring	Margaret Sullavan John Boles
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 1, 1933
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Only Yesterday is a 1933 drama film about a young woman who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend before he rushes off to fight in World War I. It stars Margaret Sullavan (in her film debut) and John Boles. The film was based on the novel Briefe einer unbekannten (Letter from an Unknown Woman) by Stefan Zweig, though he was not credited. It is also said to have been inspired by the 1931 nonfiction bestseller Only Yesterday: An Informed History of the Nineteen-Twenties by Frederick Lewis Allen, though there is no official credit for that claim, either. The film uses essentially the same time frame as Allen's book, but the appropriation of the title may simply have been an attempt to capitalize on the book's fame at the time.

Cast

• Margaret Sullavan as Mary Lane
• John Boles as James Stanton Emerson
• Edna May Oliver as Leona
• Billie Burke as Julia Warren
• Benita Hume as Phyllis Emerson
• Reginald Denny as Bob
• George Meeker as Dave Reynolds
• Jimmy Butler as Jim Jr., Mary's son
• Noel Francis as Letitia
• Bramwell Fletcher as Scott Hughes
• June Clyde as Deborah

External links

• Only Yesterday at the TCM Movie Database
• Only Yesterday at the Internet Movie Database
• Only Yesterday at AllRovi