Tomorrow's Melody

Tomorrow's Melody
Directed by	Ragnar Frisk
Written by	Stig Ahlgren
Produced by	Stellan Claësson
Starring	Viveca Lindfors Nils Lundell Björn Berglund
Cinematography	Karl-Erik Alberts
Edited by	Lennart Wallén
Music by	Jules Sylvain
Production company	Film AB Lux
Distributed by	Film AB Lux
Release date	16 March 1942 (1942-03-16)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

Tomorrow's Melody (Swedish: Morgondagens melodi) is a 1942 Swedish drama film directed by Ragnar Frisk and starring Viveca Lindfors, Nils Lundell and Björn Berglund.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj. It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and the city's PUB department store.

Synopsis

Maj-Lis Wassberg, an upper-class university student, hears about the poor working conditions in a major Stockholm department store. She gets a job there to investigate and encounters a bullying head of department as well as his son Thore Almen who is trying to form a trade union for which he is fired. Discovering that her father is a director at the bank that owns the store, she appeals to him to try and sort things out.

Cast

• Viveca Lindfors as Maj-Lis Wassberg
• Nils Lundell as Mr. Almen
• Björn Berglund as Thore Almen
• Karin Swanström as Fru Almen
• Gun Robertson as Birgit Almen
• Ernst Eklund as Wassberg
• Ragnar Widestedt as Managing director
• Hjördis Petterson as Mrs. Wassberg
• Arthur Fischer as 'Surlimpan'
• Emil Fjellström as Sundvall
• Sven-Eric Gamble as Boy
• Åke Grönberg as Manager at record department
• Nils Jacobsson as Man
• Willy Peters as 'Skjort-Lasse'
• Barbro Ribbing as Emmy
• Betty Bjurström as Young Woman
• Saga Sjöberg as Singer
• Carl Ström as Man

References

1. Qvist & von Bagh p.105

Bibliography

• Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External links

• Tomorrow's Melody at IMDb