Return to Yesterday

Return to Yesterday
Original UK film poster
Directed by	Robert Stevenson
Produced by	S.C. Balcon
Screenplay by	Margaret Kennedy Angus MacPhail Roland Pertwee Robert Stevenson
Based on	Goodness, How Sad by Robert Morley
Starring	Clive Brook Anna Lee Dame May Whitty
Music by	Ernest Irving
Cinematography	Ronald Neame
Edited by	Charles Saunders
Production company	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	ABFD
Release dates	9 March 1940 (1940-03-09) (UK)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Return to Yesterday is a 1940 British comedy-drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Clive Brook and Anna Lee. It was based on Robert Morley's play Goodness, How Sad. The film was made at Ealing Studios.

Synopsis

A British Hollywood star goes AWOL on his way back to Hollywood after a visit in London. The reason is an impromptu decision to leave the train on his way to the ocean liner in Southampton when it passes the seaside resort where he once worked as a struggling actor at a local theatre. Without anyone but his old landlady realising who he is, he then agrees to appear in latest production of a travelling repertory theatre company when it loses its leading man a few days before the premiere, and falls in love with the leading lady.

Cast

Clive Brook as Robert Maine
Anna Lee as Carol Sands
Dame May Whitty as Mrs. Emily Truscott
Hartley Power as Regan
Milton Rosmer as Fred Sambourne
David Tree as Peter Thropp
Olga Lindo as Grace Sambourne
Garry Marsh as Charlie Miller
Arthur Margetson as Osbert
Elliott Mason as Mrs Priskin
O. B. Clarence as Truscott
David Horne as Morrison
Frank Pettingell as Prendergast
Ludwig Stössel as Captain Angst
Wally Patch as Night Watchman
H.F. Maltby as Inspector
Mary Jerrold as Old lady at station
Alf Goddard as Attendant
John Turnbull as Stationmaster
Patric Curwen as Jim, the Guard
Eliot Makeham as Fred Grover
Mollie Rankin as Christine Lawford
Bruce Seton as Journalist

References

External links

Return to Yesterday at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Robert Stevenson

Happy Ever After (1932)
Falling for You (1933)
Tudor Rose (1936)
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Jack of All Trades (1936)
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Non-Stop New York (1937)
Owd Bob (1938)
The Ware Case (1938)
Young Man's Fancy (1939)
Return to Yesterday (1940)
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Back Street (1941)
Joan of Paris (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Dishonored Lady (1947)
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
I Married a Communist (1949)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Johnny Tremain (1957)
Old Yeller (1957)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
Kidnapped (1960)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Son of Flubber (1963)
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
Mary Poppins (1964)
The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
The Love Bug (1968)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
The Shaggy D.A. (1976)

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