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1940 British film by Robert Stevenson

Return to Yesterday
Original UK film poster
Directed by	Robert Stevenson
Screenplay by	Margaret Kennedy Angus MacPhail Roland Pertwee Robert Stevenson
Based on	Goodness, How Sad by Robert Morley
Produced by	S.C. Balcon
Starring	Clive Brook Anna Lee Dame May Whitty
Cinematography	Ronald Neame
Edited by	Charles Saunders
Music by	Ernest Irving
Production company	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	ABFD
Release date	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

Critical reception

Allmovie called it "A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered."

References

^ "Return to Yesterday (1940)". Archived from the original on 10 March 2017.
^ "Return to Yesterday (1940) - Robert Stevenson - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.

External links

Return to Yesterday at IMDb

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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)
The Woman on Pier 13 (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)

Films by Charles Saunders

Feature films

Director	No Exit (1930) Everything Is Thunder (1936) Tawny Pipit (1944) (co-director, Bernard Miles) The Way to the Stars (1945, director of Second Unit) The White Unicorn (1947, location director) Fly Away Peter (1948) Trouble in the Air (1948) Your Witness (1950, assistant to director) Dark Interval (1950) Chelsea Story (1951) One Wild Oat (1951) Death of an Angel (1952) Blind Man's Bluff (1952) Come Back Peter (1952) Black Orchid (1953) Love in Pawn (1953) The Scarlet Web (1954) The Golden Link (1954) Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954) One Jump Ahead (1955) The Hornet's Nest (1955) A Time to Kill (1955) The Narrowing Circle (1956) Behind the Headlines (1956) Find the Lady (1956) Murder Reported (1957) There's Always a Thursday (1957) The Man Without a Body (1957) Date with Disaster (1957) Kill Her Gently (1957) The End of the Line (1957) Womaneater (1958) Nudist Paradise (1958) Naked Fury (1959) Strictly Confidential (1959) Operation Cupid (1959) The Gentle Trap (1960) Dangerous Afternoon (1961) Jungle Street (1961) Danger by My Side (1963)
Editor	Enter the Queen (1930) Bill's Legacy (1931) Immediate Possession (1931) Peace and Quiet (1931) We dine at Seven (1931) Detective Lloyd (1931) The Wrong Mr. Perkins (1931) The Guv'nor (1935) O.H.M.S. (1937) Take My Tip (1937) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) Sweet Devil (1938) The Ware Case (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Young Man's Fancy (1939) Return to Yesterday (1940) Alibi (1942, supervising editor) The Gentle Sex (1943)
Cutter	Cottage to Let (1941) I Thank You (1941) Hi Gang! (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Script writer	Tawny Pipit (1944) Come Back Peter (1952)

Television

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (8 episodes) (1953–1954)
Fabian of the Yard (10 episodes) (1953–1956)
Adventures of the Big Man (9 episodes) (1956)

Family

Peter Saunders (impresario)

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