''Tomorrow's Love'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

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, written by

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and

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, and starring

Agnes Ayres Agnes Ayres (born Agnes Henkel; April 4, 1896 – December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She was known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in '' The Sheik'' opposite Rudolph Valentino. Career Ayres ...

, Patrick H. O'Malley, Jr.,

Raymond Hatton Raymond William Hatton (July 7, 1887 – October 21, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in almost 500 motion pictures. Biography Hatton was born in Red Oak, Iowa. His physician father steered him toward a career in medicine. Howev ...

Jane Winton Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter. Early years Winton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1905. The deaths of her father when she was four yea ...

Ruby Lafayette Ruby Lafayette (July 22, 1844 – April 3, 1935) was an American film actress, known for ''Sue of the South'' (1919), ''Big Bob'' (1921) and ''The Man Trap'' (1917). She was married to John T. Curran. At age 82, Lafayette nearly died from inju ...

, and Dale Fuller. It was released on January 5, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, Judith (Ayres) marries Robert Stanley (O'Malley), they go on a honeymoon, and for a time they are very happy. However, by the end of the first year she has become irritated by his stubbornness and petty fault-finding. An open window causes him to catch a cold, but he still goes to work anyway in the rain. His car breaks down and an old friend, Bess Carlysle (Winton), a

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, happens along and takes him to her apartment. There she makes him take a hot foot bath and gives him

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for his cold. Judith discovers that he is with Bess and uses this to her advantage to sue for divorce. She obtains a decree that becomes effective in one year. She goes to Europe but, after being the target of some sophisticated retorts by the philanderer Brown (Hatton), soon discovers that she is still in love with Robert. When Robert's Grandmother (Lafayette) advices her to hurry home lest Robert marries Bess, she does so, arriving just minutes prior to midnight, being the last day before the divorce becoming final. There is a mad struggle where the wife attempts to outwit the clever vamp. Through a ruse by the Grandmother's, Judith gets Robert away from Bess, and the couple become reconciled and agree to start all over again.

Cast

as Judith Stanley * Patrick H. O'Malley, Jr. as Robert Stanley *

as Brown *

as Bess Carlysle *

as Grandmother * Dale Fuller as Maid *

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(uncredited)

Preservation

With no copies of ''Tomorrow's Love'' located in any film archives,Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Tomorrow's Love''
/ref> it is a

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References

External links

* * 1925 films 1920s English-language films Silent American comedy films 1925 comedy films Paramount Pictures films American black-and-white films American silent feature films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub