There's Always Tomorrow

“Once upon a time, in sunny California …”

Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray), a toy manufacturer, comes home to a wife and children who are always on their way somewhere else, and the evening he had cleared for his family goes to nothing. Then Norma Miller Vale (Barbara Stanwyck), a former employee he hasn't seen in years, walks back into his life, and Douglas Sirk lets the two of them talk. Clifford's marriage to Marion (Joan Bennett) and the grown children under his roof are all on the line.