It Happened Tomorrow
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Movie poster for It Happened Tomorrow |
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Directed by | René Clair |
Produced by | Arnold Pressburger |
Written by | Short Story Writer: Lord Dunsany Screenwriters: René Clair Helene Fraenkel Dudley Nichols Howard Snyder Hugh Wedlock, Jr. |
Starring | Dick Powell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Edgar Kennedy Edward S. Brophy |
Music by | Robert Stolz |
Cinematography | Eugen Schüfftan Louis Clyde Stoumen Archie J. Stout |
Editing by | Fred Pressburger |
Release date(s) | 1944 |
Country | USA |
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It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 fantasy film starring Dick Powell.
In the film, Powell plays a reporter who is given, by a ghostly deceased newspaper man, a newspaper that has tomorrow's news. He uses the paper to write stories and get the "scoop" on other newspaper men. In addition, he uses the power to bet on horses he know will win and gains considerable wealth. He and new girlfriend Sylvia enjoy the power for a while until the paper predicts the reporter's death.
[edit] Awards
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards:
- Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Best Sound, Recording
[edit] Cast
- Dick Powell as Lawrence Stevens
- Linda Darnell as Sylvia
- Jack Oakie as Uncle Oscar Smith
- Edgar Kennedy as Inspector Mulrooney