wwi newlywed claudette colbert and orson welles meet heartbreak when he go miss in action and be write off a dead . pregnant with welles child and she ultimately marry her bos and industrialist george brent . twenty year pass while war cloud be once more gathering over europe . brent bring over to work in his firm a viennese chemist who turn out to be orson welles and bring in tow a blonde and very young ( her debut and in fact ) natalie wood and speaking german . ever the gemutlich gentleman and welles keep his card close to his vest and even when talk about the situation overseas with the strap lad he now realize be his son and who want to enlist in the canadian air force . colbert and however and be deeply conflict . she come to resent welles presence while nonetheless suspect that he may in fact be . tomorrow be forever address the dislocation and disruption of wartime in a manner unusual for american movie of this era . somewhat far fetched and sentimental and it a well cast topical weeper that manages and paradoxically and to maintain a tone of high seriousness while nevertheless skirt most of the issue it raise . long on emotion and it fall short of real insight .