Forever and a Day

The Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Kent Smith

(Gates Trimble Pomfret)

Reginald Gardiner

(Assistant Hotel Manager)

Victor McLaglen

(Archibald Spavin)

Billy Bevan

(Wartime Cabby)

Arthur Treacher

(Second Air Raid Watcher)

Ruth Warrick

(Lesley Trimble)

C. Aubrey Smith

(Eustace Trimble)

Edmund Gwenn

(Stubbs)

Ray Milland

(Bill Trimble)

May Whitty

(Lucy Trimble)

Gene Lockhart

(Cobblewick)

Anna Neagle

(Susan Trenchard)

Claude Rains

(Ambrose Pomfret)

Jessie Matthews

(Mildred Trimble)

Reginald Owen

(Simpson)

Ian Hunter

(Dexter Pomfret)

Charles Laughton

(Bellamy)

Cedric Hardwicke

(Mr. Dabb)

Anna Lee

(Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret)

Patric Knowles

(Trimble-Pomfret Son)

Edward Everett Horton

(Anthony Trimble-Pomfret)

Isobel Elsom

(Lady Trimble-Pomfret)

June Duprez

(Julia Trimble-Pomfret)

Wendell Hulett

(Augustus Trimble-Pomfret)

Ida Lupino

(Jenny Jones)

Brian Aherne

(Jim Trimble)

Merle Oberon

(Marjorie Ismay)

Una O'Connor

(Caroline Ismay)

Nigel Bruce

(Major Garrow)

Elsa Lanchester

(Mamie)

Robert Coote

(Blind Officer)

June Lockhart

(Girl in Air Raid Shelter)

Roland Young

(Henry Barringer)

Gladys Cooper

(Mrs. Barringer)

Robert Cummings

(Ned)

Donald Crisp

(Captain Martin)

George Kirby

(Wartime Newspaper Vendor)

Doreen Munroe

(Wartime Londoner)

May Beatty

(Wartime Londoner Cook)

Connie Leon

(Wartime Londoner)

Joy Harington

(Wartime Bus Conductor)

Herbert Marshall

(Curate in Air Raid Shelter)

Buster Keaton

(Wilkins)

Ernest Grooney

(Hotel Manager)

Harry Allen

(First Cockney Air Raid Watcher)

Aubrey Mather

(Man in Air Raid Shelter)

Ethel Griffies

(Wife of Man in Air Raid Shelter)

Halliwell Hobbes

(Doctor)

Montagu Love

(Sir John Bunn)

Cecil Kellaway

(Dinner Guest)

Wendy Barrie

(Edith Trimble-Pomfret)

Queenie Leonard

(Maid)

Eric Blore

(Charles)

Emily Fitzroy

(Ms. Fulcher)

Richard Haydn

(Mr. Fulcher)

Odette Myrtil

(Madame Gaby)

June Tripp

(V. A. D. girl)

Ivan F. Simpson

(Dexter)