Forever and a Day (1943 film)

Forever and a Day
Original film poster
Directed by	multiple director[1]
Produced by	multiple producers[2]
Written by	multiple writers[3]
Starring	Kent Smith Ruth Warrick
Cinematography	Robert De Grasse Lee Garmes Russell Metty Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by	George Crone Elmo Williams
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	March 26, 1943[4]
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Forever and a Day is a 1943 drama film, a collaborative effort employing seven directors/producers and 22 writers, including an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock, with an enormous cast of well-known stars.

Plot

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, Lesley 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.

Partial cast

Kent Smith as Gates Trimble Pomfret Reginald Gardiner as Assistant Hotel Manager Victor McLaglen as Archibald Spavin, hotel doorman Arthur Treacher as Second Air Raid Watcher June Lockhart as Girl in Air Raid Shelter Ruth Warrick as Lesley Trimble Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Dabb 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, solicitor Ian Hunter as Dexter Promfret Charles Laughton as Bellamy, Dexter's butler Anna Lee as Cornelia Trimble Buster Keaton as Wilkins, 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 Jones, the maid Wendy Barrie as Edith Trimble-Pomfret Wendell Hulett as Augustus Trimble-Pomfret Eric Blore as Charles, the 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, the hotel maid Ivan F. Simpson as Dexter, the hotel tenant Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Garrow 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 Doris Lloyd as Trimble Maid Helena Pickard as Trimble Maid Connie Leon as wartime Londoner

Notes

1. Directors: René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox.
2. Producers: René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox.
3. Writers: Charles Bennett, Alan Campbell, Norman Corwin, C. S. Forester, Peter Godfrey, Jack Hartfield, Lawrence Hazard, S. M. Herzig, James Hilton, 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 and Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited).
4. "Forever and a Day: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 23, 2014.

External links

• Forever and a Day at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Forever and a Day at the Internet Movie Database
• Forever and a Day at the TCM Movie Database
• Review in the New York Times by Bosley Crowther (May 13, 1943)