Tomorrow, the World


Tomorrow, the World is a 1944 blackandwhite motion picture starring Fredric March, Betty Field, and Agnes Moorehead, about a young German boy Skip Homeier who had been active in the Hitler youth who comes to live with his uncle in the United States, who tries to teach him to reject Nazism. The film, directed by Leslie Fenton, was based on the successful 1943 Broadway play of the same name.

The play Tomorrow, the World opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA onApril 1943 and closedJune 1944 after 500 performances. The openingnight cast included Skip Homeier as Emil and Edit Angold as Frieda, both of whom originated their movie roles in the play, and Ralph Bellamy as Mike Frame, Shirley Booth as Leona Richards and Kathryn Givney as Jessie Frame.Producer Lester Cowan bought the rights to the play for 75,000 plusof the gross, not to exceed 350,000. He wanted to change the title of the movie to The Intruder, but a poll of exhibitors voted him down. ........

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