21 Jul Tomorrow is Forever
Tomorrow is Forever, WWII era Movie starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles
(1946) When I started to watch this movie and discovered that the main male character was headed toward World War One I almost turned it off. Then I thought … it’s Orson “Rosebud” Welles, definitely worth watching. The female lead is the much beloved Claudette Colbert.
A young woman’s husband goes off to war and is soon reported to be killed in action. She is pregnant and remarries soon after her baby, named after his father, is born. Twenty years later, just as war in Europe is breaking out again, we learn that her husband is actually alive. He has taken on a new identity with an Austrian accent no less.
Claudette was 43 when the movie was made. Welles was 31. His make-up team did an amazing job of aging him at the end.
A tow-headed Natalie Wood plays a young Austrian orphan, adopted by the Welles character.
I’ll bet this was a story line that haunted many young war widows as they tried to rebuild their lives and remarry. What if their husband did come back? What then? We know now that this was not as impossible as it seems, that the Armed Forces would issue a premature obituary.
I am reading the best-selling book Unbroken, and it happened to Louie Zamperini, the B-24 bombardier who was lost in the Pacific then captured by the Japanese. His family refused to believe he was dead and as it turned out, they were right.
Tomorrow Is Forever at amazon.com
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