Next Time We Love

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Movie
Original title Next Time We Love
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1936
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Edward H. Griffith
script Melville Baker based
on a novel by Ursula Parrott
production Paul Kohner
for Universal Pictures
music Franz Waxman
camera Joseph A. Valentine
cut Ted J. Kent
occupation

Next Time We Love is a 1936 American melodrama directed by Edward H. Griffith in which Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart played the lead roles. The film is based on the novel Next Time We Live by Ursula Parrott , which appeared in 1935.

action

Cicely actually works as a teacher. When she's about to get on the train after the holidays to go back to work, her friend, newspaper reporter Christopher Tyler, asks her what if she didn't take the train. Cicely stays with him and they both marry spontaneously. His newly wedded wife accepts that her husband will be on the road a lot as a foreign correspondent - that's how she knows him and on this basis she married him. And so it is not her husband to whom she first reveals her pregnancy, but his best friend, the actor Tommy Abbott. Their child Kit is born while Christopher is in Rome. Completely surprised, he travels back to the USA to be able to support his weakened wife. As a result, his newspaper missed important headlines. The consequence is drastic for the young family: Christopher is fired.

While in the following months he kept his head above water, Cicely followed Tommy's offer to audition for a director. Cicely was hired and rose to become one of Broadway's greatest stars in the following years. She even manages to get Christopher back from his job at the newspaper, which however sends him to Siberia and China for months. Neither Cicely nor their son have much from him, who is only at home a few days a year. The couple drifts apart and yet Cicely doesn't know the real reason Christopher is pushing for a divorce. He suffers from an unknown but fatal disease that he contracted in China. At one last meeting, Christopher reveals himself to his wife, who swears that she will be faithful to him until death.

production

Francis Lederer was originally supposed to play the role of Christopher Tyler in Next Time We Love , but was not free at the time. Margaret Sullavan was able to get Universal Pictures to hire James Stewart, who was almost unknown at the time, as her co-star at MGM . Because James Stewart acted manneristly in early scenes of the film, Sullavan rehearsed with him all night, so that he eventually “returned from Universal [to MGM] so changed that [one] hardly recognized him. In his next films at MGM he showed a self-confidence and a mastery of his profession that were just amazing. "

Filming began on October 21, 1935 and ended in December 1935. At the end of January 1936, the film was released in US cinemas.

criticism

The reviews for Next Time We Love have been mixed. While Time Magazine highlighted Stewart's game as "natural, spontaneous, and all in all excellent," Variety criticized the film as being primarily "a series of behaviors that often have no meaning or understanding." The film would be very corny and one of the "typically ... shameless pussies that the studio bosses ... tailored to [Sullavan] at all costs."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bill Grady on James Stewart. Quoted from Donald Dewey: James Stewart. A life for the film . Henschel, Berlin 1997, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Quoted from Jonathan Coe: James Stewart. His films - his life . Heyne, Munich 1994, p. 26.
  3. ↑ "pretty thick mush". Ty Burr: The Essential Jimmy Stewart: A Critical Look at His Most Memorable Films . In: Entertainment Weekly , July 18, 1997, p. 38.
  4. ↑ Jonathan Coe: James Stewart. His films - his life . Heyne, Munich 1994, p. 26.