Now and Forever (1934)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 81 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple
IMDb score:
6,5 (1.332)
Releasedate: 31 August 1934
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Now and Forever plot
Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni have a strange lifestyle. Jerry can't take responsibility yet, but Toni longs for a family and a settled life. One day, Jerry reunites with his daughter Pennie. She lived with her late mother's family. Pennie makes sure her father gets back on the right track. When jewel thief Felix Evans threatens to lead Jerry back on track, his new family is in danger...
Actors and actresses
Jerry Day
Penelope 'Pennie' Day
Toni Carstairs Day
Felix Evans
Mrs. J.H.P. Crane
James Higginson
Mr. Clark
Mr. Ling - Hotel Manager
French Jeweller
Assistant Hotel Manager
Reviews & comments
Roger Thornhill
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Uh-oh… Beforehand, I was mainly afraid that the two adult stars would have to dance to the side curls of the child star, but fortunately, that fear did not materialize. Gary Cooper's reputation may rest primarily on the integrity of his heroes in Sergeant York and High Noon, but here he portrays a very convincing lighthearted womanizer who always catches the next train (boat, plane) lightning-fast after his scams, and although Carole Lombard has slightly less to do, she too is convincing as the woman who cannot let him go (and moreover, her presence alone is enough to lift the curtain). In between, Shirley Temple actually maneuvers more than adequately as Cooper's heartbreaker, and just in case this becomes too sweet for a 21st-century viewer, there is Guy Standing, an even shrewder con artist than Cooper who very cunningly manages to lure him back down the wrong path. It might all sound like cheap melodrama, but because the focus lies more on Cooper and his problems with Lombard than on the overly adorable Temple, this film is actually quite watchable.
Nice detail: in the tiny role of the real estate agency secretary who comes to tell Cooper that he unfortunately failed to rent out a home with blue tiles in the bathroom, we see Luise Rainer, here not even big enough to have her name listed in the cast on screen, but three years later the first person to win two Oscars in a row, for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937) – and after that she would live for another seventy-seven years until she passed away in 2014 at the age of 104.
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