One-sheet poster for the film, “Tomorrow, the World!” (1944)
Extent and Medium
Overall: Height: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
Creator(s)
- United Artists Corporation (Distributor)
- Lester Cowan Productions, Inc. (Production Company)
- Ken Sutak (Compiler)
Biographical History
The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
Archival History
The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur
Scope and Content
One-sheet poster for the film, “Tomorrow, The World!” released by United Artists in December 1944. The film was based on a popular 1943 Broadway play of the same name, and centers around a 12-year-old member of the Hitler Youth who moves to the United States to live with his American uncle. Despite his parents’ deaths in a concentration camp, the young boy is entrenched in Nazi ideology, and is arrogant, insulting, and outwardly antagonistic towards his uncle’s Jewish fiancée. The adults debate over the best way to handle the boy, and by extension, Nazi Germany. After a more physical tactic ends in disaster, the characters find that a compassionate and loving approach breaks through. This serves as a metaphor for how to treat the ordinary German citizens living under the brutality of the Nazi regime. “Tomorrow, the World!” carries an underlying message that they were unwillingly forced into the Nazi ideology, and the film promotors even suggested that local discussions should held. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Poster printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper with a narrow border on all four sides. Across the top of the poster are illustrated faces of four characters against a partial, light blue background. On the left side is a smiling girl with her hair pulled back with two red ribbons, and a woman with short, curly hair and thin, arched eyebrows. On the right is a man with brown hair and one raised eyebrow, and a woman with brown hair that is pinned up. Each has a small, angled, yellow banner containing red text in quotes below. In the center left of the poster is a large, blue rectangle overlaid by the film title in large, yellow text and the film credits in smaller, black text. To the right of the rectangle is a large margin containing an illustrated face of young a man with wavy, reddish hair, against a partial, light blue background. Additional film credits in black text are in the margin below. Across the bottom of the poster, overlapping the blue rectangle, is a colorful illustration of a village with mountains in the background. In the lower left corner is black text in the center of a circular wreath made of two red, leafed branches tied together with a ribbon at the bottom. Printing and copyright information is printed in black ink in the bottom margin. The poster was folded into eight sections and is now heavily creased along the folds. There are also tears along the creases, especially at the top center and at the points where the creases meet. The poster is discolored, especially along the left margin, and has many gray and brown stains throughout. Depicted: Joan Carroll as Pat Frame, Betty Field as Leona Richards, Fredric March as Mike Frame, Agnes Moorehead as Jessie Frame, Skip Homeier as Emil Bruckner
People
- Moorehead, Agnes, 1900-1974.
- March, Fredric, 1897-1975.
- Homeier, Skip.
- Field, Betty, 1918-1973.
- Carroll, Joan, 1931-2016.
Subjects
- National socialism in motion pictures.
- United States.
- Germans in motion pictures.
- Anti-Nazi movement in motion pictures.
- Youth in motion pictures.
- Film adaptations.
- Discrimination in motion pictures.
- Jewish women in motion pictures.
Genre
- Posters.
- Posters
- Object