| It Happened Tomorrow | |
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| Directed by | René Clair |
| Produced by | Arnold Pressburger |
| Written by | Lord Dunsany (play) Hugh Wedlock Jr (stry) Howard Snyder (novel) Lewis R. Foster (ideas) René Clair (scrplay) Dudley Nichols (screenplay) Helene Fraenkel (dial.) |
| Starring | Dick Powell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie |
| Music by | Robert Stolz |
| Cinematography | Eugen Schüfftan Louis Clyde Stoumen Archie J. Stout |
| Editing by | Fred Pressburger |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | May 28, 1944 (US) |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 fantasy film starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and Sig Ruman. It was directed by René Clair.
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Powell plays a reporter who is given, by a ghostly deceased newspaper man named Pop Benson, 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.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards:[1]
It Happened Tomorrow was adapted as a radio play on the July 3, 1944 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Don Ameche and Anne Baxter, the September 25, 1944 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Dick Powell and Linda Darnell reprising their original roles and on the October 9, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, starring Eddie Bracken and Ann Blyth.
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