Next Time We Love by Edward H. Griffith (1936)
16 June 2008This time I have started on James Stewart films, and this is a quite a depressing love story, about two people that can’t love each other more, but basically can’t manage to be together, even through marriage. Margaret Sullavan is quite lovely, and James Stewart is equally as good. And this being of that period, the film really ends hard, seemingly with more story to be told, but I guess you just have to surmise the rest. Enjoyable, but sad.
A young newspaper man named Christopher Tyler (James Stewart) is about to say goodbye to his sweatheart Cicely (Margaret) who is leaving for her last year of college, when he proposes and they get married. Christopher lives in the apartment of a reporter who is out of the country, and is best friend with the wealthy Tommy Abbott (Ray Milland). Christopher ends up getting a chance for a really big job, and goes to Rome, leaving Cicely to tell Tommy that she is pregnant.
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Next we heart Tommy has left his post, and gotten fired to return back to be with Cicely when he finally heard that she had given birth, he comes back and takes a local newspaper job, but is never happy, while Cicely decides to go back into acting, and starts to become quite a success.
Christopher ends up getting another great job, and leaves for it, for years at a time, coming back to visit, while Tommy gets closer to Cicely, eventually confessing his love. And finally Cicelly decides to go see Christopher who has told her, that they should consider divorce. Cicely goes to find him, and he has in fact quit doing the newspaper, and is supposedly writing a book, but is in fact dieing and is getting some treatment. Instead of telling her though, he tries to sneak out, and get away on a train, but she finds him, and they confess their love and kiss.
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What a sad tale, really quite depressing.
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