It Happened Tomorrow

1944 film by René Clair

Movie film Q2393215

Facts

21 properties

Instance of: film
Director: René Clair^[1]
Genre: fantasy film, flashback film, comedy film, drama film^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]
Publication date: 1944^[30]
Screenwriter: René Clair, Dudley Nichols^[2]^[3]
Producer: Arnold Pressburger^[23]
Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score, Academy Award for Best Sound^[34]^[35]
Duration: +85^[37]
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction^[39]
Cast member: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy, Sig Ruman, Emma Dunn, Victor Potel, Edward Brophy, Paul Guilfoyle, Luis Alberni, Earle Hodgins, George Cleveland, Jimmy Conlin, Snub Pollard, George Chandler^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]
Color: black-and-white^[28]
Composer: Robert Stolz^[4]
Costume designer: René Hubert^[38]
Country of origin: United States^[29]
Director of photography: Eugen Schüfftan, Louis Clyde Stoumen^[24]^[25]
Distributed by: United Artists, Netflix^[31]^[32]
Distribution format: video on demand^[27]
Film editor: Fred Pressburger^[33]
Original language of film or TV show: English^[26]
P14449: 78405
Title: It Happened Tomorrow^[36]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 52

AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID: 829
AMPAS collections film ID: W067060
Academy Awards Database film ID: 1764
AllMovie title ID: v96883
Allcinema film ID: 25159
AlloCiné film ID: 8231
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.6j6io15h5qfds9pxyx9bs04tp
Cinema Context ID: F020938
Cinema.de ID: 1338977
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID: 2095
Decine21 film ID: 16956
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID: 36101

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Dvdcompare.net film ID: 19549
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/F8C8-A902-3D15-95D7-703E-M
ElFilm film ID: 36888
Elonet movie ID: 834199
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID: it_happened_tomorrow
Exploitation mark number: 964
Fernsehserien.de ID: filme/es-geschah-morgen
FilmAffinity film ID: 991414
FilmVandaag ID: film/33097
Filmová databáze film ID: 15998
Filmportal ID: 9d762dd1b7014e4d9d12193638d5a210
Freebase ID: /m/08s04l
IMDb ID: tt0036962
ISAN: 0000-0000-7B3C-0000-7-0000-0000-G
ISzDb film ID: 11650
ITunes movie ID: 1567656216
Internet Archive ID: it-happened-tomorrow-1944, ITHAPPENEDTOMORROW
Kanopy ID: 13131027, 13890184
Kinobox film ID: 19578
Kinopoisk film ID: 166836
LUMIERE film ID: 61340
LdiF ID: 16193
Letterboxd film ID: it-happened-tomorrow
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 2448
Movie Review Query Engine ID: it-happened-tomorrow-m100028876
MovieMeter film ID: 26823
Moviepilot.de film ID: es-geschah-morgen
Netflix ID: 60010505
OFDb film ID: 24608
PORT film ID: 3123
Plex media key: 5d77682c880197001ec91f2e
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/it_happened_tomorrow
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 49846
TCM Movie Database film ID: 79518
TMDB movie ID: 3589
TV Spielfilm film ID: 1338977
TheTVDB movie ID: 28989
Trakt.tv ID: movies/it-happened-tomorrow-1944
Trakt.tv film ID: 2296
ČSFD film ID: 26307

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🔗 Connections

Cast member 15

Linda Darnell, Dick Powell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy, Sig Ruman, Edward Brophy, Snub Pollard, George Chandler +7 more

Genre 3

comedy film, drama film, fantasy film

Director of photography 2

Eugen Schüfftan, Louis Clyde Stoumen

Distributed by 2

Netflix, United Artists

Screenwriter 2

René Clair, Dudley Nichols

Color 1

black-and-white

Composer 1

Robert Stolz

Costume designer 1

René Hubert

Country of origin 1

United States

Created notable works 1

René Clair

Director 1

René Clair

Distribution format 1

video on demand

Instance of 1

film

Nominated for 1

Academy Award for Best Sound

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Producer 1

Arnold Pressburger

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Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — director (P57): René Clair. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — screenwriter (P58): René Clair. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — screenwriter (P58): Dudley Nichols. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — composer (P86): Robert Stolz. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — genre (P136): fantasy film. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — genre (P136): flashback film. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — genre (P136): comedy film. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — genre (P136): drama film. Retrieved 2019-05-27. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Dick Powell. allocine.fr. Retrieved 2016-05-19. allocine.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Linda Darnell. allocine.fr. Retrieved 2016-05-19. allocine.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Jack Oakie. allocine.fr. Retrieved 2016-05-19. allocine.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Edgar Kennedy. allocine.fr. Retrieved 2016-05-19. allocine.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Sig Ruman. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Emma Dunn. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Victor Potel. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Edward Brophy. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Paul Guilfoyle. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Luis Alberni. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Earle Hodgins. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): George Cleveland. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Jimmy Conlin. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — cast member (P161): Snub Pollard. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — producer (P162): Arnold Pressburger. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — director of photography (P344): Eugen Schüfftan. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — director of photography (P344): Louis Clyde Stoumen. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — distribution format (P437): video on demand. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — color (P462): black-and-white. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — country of origin (P495): United States. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — publication date (P577): 1944. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — distributed by (P750): United Artists. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — distributed by (P750): Netflix. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — film editor (P1040): Fred Pressburger. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — nominated for (P1411): Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — nominated for (P1411): Academy Award for Best Sound. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — title (P1476): It Happened Tomorrow. wikidata.org.
[37] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — duration (P2047): 85 minutes. wikidata.org.
[38] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — costume designer (P2515): René Hubert. wikidata.org.
[39] ↑ It Happened Tomorrow — CNC film rating (France) (P2758): no age restriction. cnc.fr. Retrieved 2023-02-03. cnc.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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