Oh, Tomorrow Night...
About Oh, Tomorrow Night...
Ernst Rolf plays a henpecked husband, also named Ernst Rolf, whose wife Josefina, Mary Gräber, has turned shrewish. Short of money, he slips out when the building superintendent arrives. He meets his friend Boman, Eric Lindholm, at Stockholm's Opera Terrace, complains, and pictures other women dancing on the table. Boman forges a letter calling him to a meeting in Jönköping so he can attend the masquerade at Hasselbacken. Boman also writes to Josefina, as a secret admirer, sending her to the same ball. Rolf flirts with his own masked wife, recognizes her rings, runs home, and is in bed when she returns. He forgives her, and expects quieter treatment afterward.
Cast & crew
More about Oh, Tomorrow Night...
John W. Brunius directed and co-wrote the two-act farce with Sam Ask, from the song Åh, i morgon kväll. Hugo Edlund photographed it. Vilhelm Bryde and Gustaf Hallén were the art directors. Swedish censors passed it on 3 December 1919, certificate 23027, at 703 meters, from age 15.
Themes
Making
Skandia built the domestic scenes at its Lidingö studio and took the company to the Opera Terrace, Hasselbacken, and St. Erik's Bridge for the night out.
Look
Hugo Edlund shot the farce, including the terrace fantasy in which women appear to dance on the tabletop.
Technique
The terrace daydream is done with trick photography: the women Rolf imagines dance on the table in front of him.
Music
Silent. The plot and title come from Harry Carlton's song Åh, i morgon kväll, Swedish text by S.S. Wilson.
Preservation
A print survives. The Swedish Film Institute recorded later archive screenings, including a cinematheque show on 22 September 1973.
Notes
- The Swedish Film Database lists the premiere on 8 December 1919 at the Victoria in Gothenburg and the Sture in Stockholm.
- Hulda Malmström plays the mother-in-law, Jean Grafström the superintendent, and Anna Diedrich the housekeeper.
- Gucken Cederborg is a woman at the Opera Terrace. Eva Eriksson is a flirt at Hasselbacken.
- Besides this short, Ernst Rolf's only other Swedish film role was in Styrman Karlssons flammor (1925).
- The song, in English Oh, Tomorrow Night, was composed by Harry Carlton in 1914. The Swedish lyric is credited to S.S. Wilson.
- Finnish and Danish release titles include Oh, huomeniltana! and Aah, i Morgen Kvæld.
Scenes
- At the Opera Terrace, women dance on the table in Rolf's trick-photography daydream.
- At the Hasselbacken masquerade he courts a masked woman and then sees his wife's rings.
- He is already in his own bed when Josefina comes home in costume.
Influenced by
- Harry Carlton's song Oh, Tomorrow Night (1914)
