Forever and a Day (film)

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name = Forever and a Day


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director = René Clair
Edmund Goulding
Cedric Hardwicke
Frank Lloyd
Victor Saville
Robert Stevenson
Herbert Wilcox
producer = René Clair
Edmund Goulding
Cedric Hardwicke
Frank Lloyd
Victor Saville
Robert Stevenson
Herbert Wilcox
writer = Charles Bennett
Alan Campbell
Norman Corwin
C. S. Forester
Peter Godfrey
Jack Hartfield
Lawrence Hazard
S. M. Herzig
James Hilton
Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
Michael Hogan
Christopher Isherwood
Emmet Lavery
W. P. Lipscomb
Gene Lockhart
Frederick Lonsdale
Alice Duer Miller
R. C. Sherriff
Donald Ogden Stewart
John Van Druten
Claudine West
Keith Winter
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starring = Kent Smith
Ruth Warrick
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distributor = RKO Pictures
released = January 21 1943
runtime = 104 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0035897

"Forever and a Day" is a 1943 drama film, a collaborative effort employing seven directors/producers and no less than 21 writers (plus an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock), with an enormous cast of well-known stars.

Plot summary

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret (Kent Smith) is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140 year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Cast

*Kent Smith as Gates Trimble Pomfret
*Reginald Gardiner as Assistant Hotel Manager
*Victor McLaglen as Archibald Spavin, the hotel doorman
*Arthur Treacher as Second Air Raid Watcher
*June Lockhart as Girl in Air Raid Shelter
*Ruth Warrick as Lesley Trimble
*Herbert Marshall as Curate in Air Raid Shelter
*Charles Irwin as Corporal Charlie
*C. Aubrey Smith as Admiral Eustace Trimble
*Edmund Gwenn as Stubbs
*Lumsden Hare as Fitch
*Ray Milland as Lieutenant William Trimble
*Dame May Whitty as Mrs. Lucy Trimble
*Gene Lockhart as Cobblewick
*Anna Neagle as Susan Trenchard
*Claud Allister as William Barstow
*Alan Edmiston as Tripp, Pomfret's Lawyer
*Claude Rains as Ambrose Pomfret
*Clifford Severn as Nelson Trimble
*Alec Craig as Ambrose Pomfret's Butler
*Jessie Matthews as Mildred Trimble
*Reginald Owen as Simpson, a solicitor
*Ian Hunter as Dexter Promfret
*Charles Laughton as Bellamy, Dexter's butler
*Anna Lee as Cornelia Trimble
*Buster Keaton as Wilkins, a plumber's helper
*Montagu Love as Sir John Bunn
*Edward Everett Horton as Sir Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
*Daphne Moore as Elizabeth Trimble-Pomfret
*Patric Knowles as Trimble-Pomfret son
*June Duprez as Julia Trimble-Pomfret
*Cecil Kellaway as Dinner Guest
*Isobel Elsom as Lady Trimble-Pomfret
*Ida Lupino as Jenny, a maid
*Wendy Barrie as Edith Trimble-Pomfret
*Wendell Hulett as Augustus Trimble-Pomfret
*Eric Blore as Charles, a butler
*Brian Aherne as Jim Trimble
*Merle Oberon as Marjorie Ismay
*Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Fulcher
*Una O'Connor as Mrs. Caroline Ismay
*Richard Haydn as Mr. Butcher
*Odette Myrtil as Madame Gaby
*Nigel Bruce as Major Garrow
*Elsa Lanchester as Mamie, a hotel maid
*Ivan F. Simpson as Dexter, a hotel tenant (as Ivan Simpson)
*Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Garrow (as Anita Bolster)
*Roland Young as Henry Barringer
*Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Barringer
*Marta Gale as Miss Garrow
*Robert Cummings as Ned Trimble
*Donald Crisp as Captain Martin
*Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Dabb

External links

*tcmdb title|id=75411|title=Forever and a Day
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F00E5D61E39E33BBC4B52DFB5668388659EDE Bosley Crowther May 13, 1943 "New York Times" review]