When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for
Gone with the Wind
, its title was
Tomorrow Is Another Day
. The 1951 film of that title has nothing to do with
, as will be obvious before the credits fade. Steve Cochran plays an ex-convict who thinks he killed a man. He takes it on the lam with Ruth Roman, a taxi dancer whose boyfriend is the supposed murder victim. Cochran is careful to marry Roman before transporting her across state lines; she doesn't really love him, but anything is better than her present lifestyle. Both husband and wife head for California, hoping to bury their past and start life clean, but society just won't let them. From the looks of things,
might well have originally been intended for John Garfield, who died in 1951.