Next Time We Love
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher Tyler (James Stewart). Meanwhile, Tommy Abbott (Ray Milland), who secretly loves Cicely, arranges a big Broadway break for her. This causes a rift in her marriage when Christopher is assigned to his newspaper's Rome bureau, but he soon deserts his post and promises never to leave her again when he discovers that she's pregnant. This rash act loses Christopher his job, forcing him to start right at the bottom again? And so goes the rest of the story, as Cicely and Christopher struggle to balance their romance and their careers. James Stewart's first significant leading-man role turned out to be at Universal, rather than his home studio of MGM; the loan-out was arranged by his old University Players friend and co-worker Margaret Sullavan, who was briefly married to Stewart's best pal Henry Fonda. Among the uncredited contributors to the screenplay of Next Time We Love was Preston Sturges. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviReview
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan were an especially well-suited screen team, and Next Time We Love is especially fortunate to have them. Stewart's innate goodness and Sullavan's slightly-covered-over-by-selfishness goodness create a nifty give-and-take between the two which is the stuff that splendid screen relationships are made of. We in the audience know from the start that these two share a heart and are meant to be together, and in Next, it's a good thing we know it, because Melville Baker and Preston Sturges' screenplay does everything it can to keep us from believing it. How so? Well, they have contrived to take the veneer of self-interest that defines Sullavan and play that up so that her character comes across as quite self-centered and ultimately irritating and unlikeable -- or would meet that fate were the lovely and lovable Sullavan not playing her. But even this fine actress can only do so much given a script that works so hard against her. Stewart, quite young, is in very fine form, as is Ray Milland as the third wheel in the equation, but they too are hampered by a script that doesn't so much play to their strengths as lean unconscionably on them. ~ Craig Butler, RoviCast
- Margaret Sullavan - Cicely Tyler
- James Stewart - Christopher Tyler
- Ray Milland - Tommy Abbott
- Grant Mitchell - Michael Jennings
- Anna Demetrio - Mme. Donato
Credit
Charles Hall - Art Director, Vera West - Costume Designer, Edward H. Griffith - Director, Ted Kent - Editor, Franz Waxman - Composer (Music Score), Jack P. Pierce - Makeup, Joseph A. Valentine - Cinematographer, Paul Kohner - Producer, Gilbert Kurland - Sound/Sound Designer, Melville Baker - Screenwriter, Preston Sturges - Screenwriter, Ursula Parrott - Short Story Author| Next Time I Marry (1938 Film), Next Time (1998 Film) | |
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| Directed by | Edward H. Griffith |
| Produced by | Paul Kohner |
| Written by | Ursula Parrott (novel) Melville Baker Doris Anderson (uncredited) Preston Sturges (uncredited) |
| Starring | Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Ray Milland |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | Joseph A. Valentine |
| Editing by | Ted J. Kent |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 30 January 1936 1 July 1948 (re-relse) |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Next Time We Love is a 1936 melodrama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland. It was written by Melville Baker with Preston Sturges and Doris Anderson, who were both uncredited, based on Ursula Parrott's 1935 novel Next Time We Live, which was serialized before publication as Say Goodbye Again. The film is also known as Next Time We Live in the U.K.
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Plot
Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) marries ambitious newsman Christopher Tyler (James Stewart) but their life together is interrupted when he is assigned to a good position in his newspaper's Rome bureau, and she stays behind, confiding to her rich secret admirer, Tommy Abbott (Ray Milland), that she is pregnant. Separations, reunions and reconciliations follow as Cicely and Christopher struggle to balance their romance and their careers.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Margaret Sullavan as Cicely Tyler
- James Stewart as Christopher Tyler
- Ray Milland as Tommy Abbott
- Grant Mitchell as Michael Jennings
- Anna Demetrio as Madame Donato
- Robert McWade as Frank Carteret
- Ronnie Cosby as Kit at Age Eight
Cast notes:
- Arthur Aylesworth, Leonid Kinskey and Hattie McDaniel, among others, have uncredited appearances in Next Time We Love.
Production
Ursula Parrott was a popular novelist of the time, several of whose novels were turned into films, most prominently Ex-Wife which became the 1930 movie The Divorcee. The story which provided the source material for Next Time We Love was first serialized as Say Goodbye Again in McCall's from December 1934 to April 1935, and was then published as a novel called Next Time We Live, which was also the working title of the film. There was debate about what to call the movie, with studio executives worrying that "Next Time We Live" might be misinterpreted to be about reincarnation, while director Edward H. Griffith didn't want to lose the publicity value of using the title of the novel. Although the film was released as Next Time We Love, the alternate title Next Time We Live was used for its release in the U.K.[4]
Francis Lederer was originally cast for the part of "Christopher Tyler", but was unavailable. Margaret Sullavan was responsible for getting her friend Jimmy Stewart borrowed from MGM for the part.[2] Production on the film was delayed because Sullavan was shooting retakes for So Red the Rose,[4] but it began on 21 October 1935 and continued through 30 December.[1] Shooting began with only half the script written by Melville Baker, so three weeks into production, the studio put Doris Anderson on the project as well. Some scenes in the film were directed in San Francisco by assistant director Ralph Slosser using doubles, and Slosser also directed some studio scenes as well.[4]
Next Time We Love was released at the end of January 1936.
References
External links
- Next Time We Love at the Internet Movie Database
- Next Time We Love at the TCM Movie Database
- Next Time We Love at AllRovi
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