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Spendthrifts of Love!
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?Read moreLess
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
The story
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Cast & crew
Charles FarrellPeter Piper
Marian NixonSidney Taylor
Minna GombellElse Taylor
William Collier Sr.Willie Taylor
Josephine HullMrs. Piper
William PawleyMalcolm Jarvis
Greta GranstedtBetty
Ferdinand MunierMr. Beardsley
Nora LaneFlorence Blandy
John ArledgeOffice Worker / Wedding Rehearsal Guest
Lita ChevretOffice Worker / Wedding Rehearsal GuestExplore the crew
- Director
- Frank Borzage
- Original Music Composer
- Hugo Friedhofer
- Editor
- Margaret Clancey
- Director of Photography
- James Wong Howe
- Screenplay
- Sonya Levien